 Beatriz Jiménez , a journalist from the Spanish newspaper El Mundo , indicates that back in Peru , the luxury hotels of Lima adopted the pisco sour as their own in the 1940s . During the 1940s and 1950s an oil bonanza attracted foreign attention to Peru . Among the visitors to Lima were renowned Hollywood actors who were fascinated by the pisco sour . Jiménez recollected oral traditions claiming an inebriated Ava Gardner had to be carried away by John Wayne after drinking too many pisco sours . Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles are said to have been big fans of what they described as " that Peruvian drink . " 
