250px, Two piscolas with ice Piscola or Combinado Nacional (national mix) is a

highball A highball is a mixed alcoholic drink composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer, often a carbonated beverage. Examples include the Seven and Seven, Scotch and soda, gin and tonic, screwdriver ...

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, made of

pisco Pisco is a colorless or yellowish-to-amber-colored spirit produced in winemaking regions of Peru and Chile. Made by distilling fermented grape juice into a high-proof spirit, it was developed by 16th-century Spanish settlers as an alternativ ...

and most commonly a

cola Cola is a Carbonation, carbonated soft drink flavored with vanilla, cinnamon, citrus essential oil, oils, and other flavorings. Cola became popular worldwide after the American pharmacist John Stith Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, a trademarked br ...

drink, that is popular in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. A piscola may be ''black'' or ''white'' depending if it is mixed with a cola or

ginger ale Ginger ale is a carbonated soft drink flavoured with ginger. It is consumed on its own or used as a mixer, often with spirit-based drinks. There are two main types of ginger ale. The golden style is credited to the Irish doctor Thomas Joseph ...

, tonic, Sprite or a similar soft drink. The drink is prepared by filling a

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with ice and then adding pisco followed by the

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in a proportion ranging from 1:1 to 1:3. Sometimes slices of

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may be added. In Chile, February 8 has been celebrated as the "day of the piscola" since 2003.

References

External links

Pisco cocktail of the week – Piscola
''Pisco Aficionado'' Chilean alcoholic drinks Cocktails with pisco {{mixed-drink-stub