World's Best Bartenders Say: "Legalize Cachaça Now!" ". PRWeb. July 19, 2009 . Retrieved 2009-08-19.

Jequitibá Rosa uses that hardwood for aging, giving the cachaça a delicate fruit flavor with a hint of bitterness. Avuá (pronounced av-wah) is a fine, handcrafted cachaça that hails from the area just outside of Rio. The sugar cane is sourced from a third-generation farm and the cachaça is made in a pot still. It's another brand that plays with barrel aging, many resting in native Brazillian woods to impart distinct flavors.Yaguara also has one of the most stunning bottles in the cachaça market. Inspired by the flowing geometry of Rio's Copacabana boardwalk, U.K. glass artist Brian Clarke designed a bottle that gets noticed while retaining the bartender-approved easy pour. While cachaça is made from sugarcane juice, most rum is made from molasses. The closest relative to cachaça would be rhum agricole which is also made from sugarcane juice in a few specific countries. Also, aged rum is mostly put into ex-bourbon barrels (although sherry casks and other fortified wine barrels are sometimes used), while cachaça is also aged in a variety of native Brazilian wood.

Similar to the vintages often noted in wine, you may notice a change in taste in these cachaças from year to year. This is due to the subtle differences in the growing seasons as each numbered batch reflects a year's harvest of ​the cane. Kaarlas, Tatu (May 9, 2009). "Cachaca review: Leblon Cachaca (Brazil)". EveryJoe.com . Retrieved 2009-08-19. Luxury comes to life in Yaguara Cachaça, a brand focused on the art of blending. Each of their three cachaças draws on a century of tradition within the Meneghel family, and the result is spectacular.

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Cachaça (pronounced kah-SHAH-sah)is taking over liquor shelves across the world. It is everything that's great about rum, yet there's something magical about it. The taste often begins with a rum sweetness, and from there it can explode into a whole host of amazing flavors—from a chemical-oil in themore industrial brands to beautiful fruits and spices in artisan aged cachaças. Josh Miller rated the Leblon at 7.5, and it was his fourth favourite of the fourteen he tried in his Cachaça Challenge in 2015.

Colibri pairs American oak and Brazillian teak for vanilla-toffee and cinnamon-chestnut deliciousness. Yaguara Blue is the brand's signature white cachaça. It combines organic cachaça rested for 10 months with a small amount of 5- to 6-year-old oak-aged cachaça. This gives it a faint yellow color, and the taste is a wonder of sweet, soft herbs and grass with hints of pepper. On February 25, 2013, the U.S. Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) finally “legalized cachaça,” as they published the final rule that recognized Brazil's national spirit as an official spirit and distinctive product of Brazil. The final rule went into effect on April 11, 2013. [10] [11] See also [ edit ]Leblon Cachaça was a Gold Medal Award Winner at the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, a nine-consecutive-year run, which is a first for any cachaça. (In 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013 Leblon was awarded the Double Gold Medal for Best Cachaça.) It was also the Best in Class Winner at the 2007 International Tasting Competition in London [5] and was awarded the 2010 Rising Star Growth Brand Award. It also won Sounds and Colours' favourite cachaça in their Caipirinha Challenge in 2011. [6] Distillation [ edit ] Despite the fact that cachaça is the official spirit of Brazil and the third-most consumed spirit in the world, it has not been recognized in some countries as a unique product appellation from Brazil. Until 2013, cachaça sold in the United States was required to say "rum" somewhere on the front label. Many makers, including Leblon, referred to their product as Brazilian Rum on the label. [8] Cachaça is made from fresh cane juice, not molasses like rum, predates the invention of rum by over a century (a.c. 1550), and has an entirely different cultural connotation. [1] Cachaça is a Brazilian spirit made from sugarcane juice. The sugarcane is harvested and pressed. This yields juice that is fermented by adding yeast, resulting in a low ABV wine that is distilled into a high-proof spirit. Silver, or unaged, cachaça is often rested in stainless steel to mellow the flavors, while aged expressions spend a few years in various types of oak, from used bourbon barrels to ones made from indigenous wood. United States Recognizes Cachaça as a Type of Rum and Distinctive Product of Brazil". TTB.gov. February 2013 . Retrieved 2015-06-15.