THE CACHAÇA DIARIES
It’s almost a guarantee that any trip to Brazil will be laden with the intrinsic pleasures of beachside caipirinhas. The cocktail is made with cachaça, showcasing Brazil’s 500-year-old spirit of choice. Cachaça is distilled from fermented sugarcane juice, making it a cousin of rum and, more specifically, of rhum agricole, or cane juice rum, though with an even longer history. The good It’s now readily available in the U.S., and some of the best bottles are barrelaged using indigenous Brazilian woods that deliver entirely unique flavors.
