Meanings of cachaça in English

Vale Verde cachaça is a combination of the old and the new.

Could cachaça be on the brink of a similar breakthrough?

Hiding cheap cachaça in a caipirinha is made easy by the cocktail's sharp tastes.

Unlike rum, which is made from molasses, cachaça is made from fresh, fermented sugarcane juice.

At the heart of the true caipirinha is cachaça - a vicious spirit made from sugar cane.

This means that just as bourbon can only be produced in the US, cachaça can only come from Brazil.

The town was once so synonymous with the production of cachaça that people would ask for a glass of parati.

There are 4,000 brands of cachaça recognised officially by the government but around 40,000 producers.

I visit a few alambiques in the surrounding countryside, dotted between waterfalls and streams, and meet two more local cachaça enthusiasts.

It's fair to say that cachaça -made from sugar cane and often exceeding 40% alcohol -has a reputation.

This place serves up regional classics and caipirinhas, the national cocktail made from a sugarcane spirit called cachaça and your choice of fruit.

I learn about the spirit's early years, when it was produced by slaves; and how cachaça also became a tool of resistance, pre-independence.

Cook over a low to medium heat for another hour and 30 minutes, adding the orange peel, juice and cachaça after an hour.

The food has won awards and the bar is famous for the display of 200 varieties of cachaça (a spirit made from sugarcane juice).

But northeast incomes are low, an average of just $4,500 a year, while sugarcane rum known as cachaça is the favored tipple.

Cachaça differs from rum by being distilled from fresh sugarcane, instead of molasses.