cachaça
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- noun
- /kəˈʃɑːsə/
- As the adventure travel industry arrived in the Chapada over the last decade, Lenis became a safe, charming New World mountain town with lively restaurants, barrels of aged cachaça, and cobblestone streets.
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This started me thinking about the basic question of whether cachaça in the U.S. is today where, say, tequila was some decades ago.
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The cachaça burns like acid down her gut.
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I was introduced to cachaça by my wife, a Carioca.
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Two barrels: Almost guaranteed to turn into a four-barrel-rated cachaça after the third one.
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Cachaça, baby!
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So I decided to start this blog as a means to record and share the cachaça-related items I've been seeing day-to-day.
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Her mom, in turn, is the president of the Confraria de Cachaça do Copo Furado, a group that meets monthly to talk about Brazil's indigenous spirit.
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You should try cachaça when visiting Brazil, as it is a popular alcoholic drink made from sugarcane.
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Cachaça is often used to make the famous Brazilian cocktail called caipirinha.
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At the festival, many people enjoyed drinking cachaça, celebrating Brazil's unique spirit.
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Etymology
Cachaça comes from Portuguese and probably from a Tupi word meaning 'sugarcane juice', a helpful way to remember that it is made from sugarcane. So cachaça is the Brazilian spirit distilled from fermented sugarcane juice.