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NOVO FOGO BRAZIL Certified Organic Cachaça

PITÚ BRAZIL Pitú Brazilian Rum Cachaça #30130974 / 1L

USDA Organic-Certified Cachaça, handcrafted in small- batches from natural Brazilian sugarcane. Copper-pot distilled; using only the heart. Bottles are handmade from recycled glass; hand-signed and batch numbered in a zero-waste distillery.

Family-owned Pitú has a reputation for world class quality and is the most globally exported cachaça brand. Made from pure, unrefined, first pressed sugar cane juice, Pitú’s master distiller carefully blends the different batches to yield a consistent character and superior level of quality. Crystal clear in color, the taste is pure and fresh with hints of banana and butterscotch flavors, with fruity and floral aromas originating from the fresh sugar cane juice. Pitú is the base ingredient of the world famous Caipirinha, the national cocktail of Brazil.

Novo Fogo is gluten-free, vegan and kosher. Gold Barrel-Aged Organic Cachaça Item 30134684 / 750ml

Aged 2 years in 50-gallon bourbon casks. Gold gets a lot of nice qualities from its time in American oak barrels, and the intersection of flavors between the vegetal and tropical cachaça and the deeper vanilla, cinnamon and caramel from the barrel works well... one of the best-aged cachaças on the American market... well worth seeking out. “...mellow and flavorful” 92pts The Tasting Panel Magazine Silver Organic Cachaça #30134685 / 750ml

PITÚBRAZILIANCAIPIRINHA INGREDIENTS One-half lime 2 tsp. granulated or bar sugar Crushed ice 2 oz. Pitú Cachaça Garnish with slice of lime DIRECTIONS Cut lime into small pieces and place in an old-fashioned glass. Add sugar. Muddle lime and sugar with a pestle or spoon. Fill glass with ice. Add Pitú. Put contents in shaker, shake well, return contents to glass and serve.

Rested for 1 year for incredible smoothness. “Silver manages a beautiful balance between a spirit that has a ton of flavor and one which is easy to drink. Novo Fogo goes to the unusual length of resting this spirit for a full year before bottling it and that step has clearly paid off ... It’s easy to fall for this expertly crafted spirit.” 4½ Stars Very Highly Recommended, DrinkSpirits Cachaça You Know Rum—But What Is Cachaça?

— PITUUSA.COM/RECIPES

“Cachaça is most definitely not a rum,” says Dragos Axinte of Novo Fogo Cachaça.“At the highest level, cachaça is made from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice, while rum is made from molasses. Molasses is a by- product of the process of making sugar from sugarcane and has very different characteristics from sugarcane juice, since it’s been boiled. I would say that [rum and cachaça] are distant cousins.” Cachaça is often called

from the sugarcane itself. Because cachaça is distilled from raw sugarcane, it retains a grassy, sulfurous, earthy quality that rum lacks—rum, by turn, is sweeter with more notes of vanilla. That’s because distilling from molasses brings out notes of the cooked sugarcane that either aren’t present in raw sugarcane or are overshadowed by its herbacious nature. SMITHSONIANMAG.COM

Brazilian rum, a nickname that isn’t entirely wrong: both rum and cachaça are made from sugar, but rum is made from sugarcane by-products, like molasses, whereas cachaça is made straight

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