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Cachaça Magos de Minas is produced in Itaverava, Minas Gerais, but is moving to the city of Betim, Minas Gerais. According to the producer, the change in location is the result of the search for increased quality in production and its flow via trade and export, as Betim is a dry port. The cachaça has a characteristic limpid tone, crystal clear, bright. Prepared as a pure sugarcane, spent at least 2 years stored in each stainless steel tanks. Versatile, it can be enjoyed fresh in single dose shots (50ml) or on the rocks with 1/3 of the glass and a maximum of 2 ice cubes. On hot days it can be previously cooled to 20ºC or less, not exceeding 12ºC, remembering that this will temporarily retain the aromas that will evolve with the natural ambient heating after serving.. Source: Cachaça Magos de Minas website

Produced in Patos Minas, in the interior of the State of Minas Gerais, Leblon cachaça has an office in New York and has been owned for some years by the Bacardi group, which at the same time also purchased Banks rum. Before belonging to the Bacardi group, Leblon was already an international cachaça, because although cachaça is a genuinely Brazilian product, Leblon is a premium product created by an American (Steve Luttmann) and aimed at export. Most of its sales are sent to the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Today the brand can be found in 35 countries, including Brazil. Leblon Reserva Especial is the producer's iconic product. It is a premium cachaça produced from a selection of top quality sugar cane, distilled in copper stills and aged in French oak barrels. Cachaça Leblon Reserva Especial is the iconic product containing the best production and aging in French oak barrels in which the XO Cognac Casks from France were previously housed. The result is a cachaça with notes of tropical fruits, caramel, vanilla and spices. Sensory note: amber color, complex aromas, caramel notes, dried fruits, honey, spices, vanilla, integrated alcohol, elegant, prolonged finish. PS: The bottle is only 375ml (normally cachaça bottles are 750ml). So, in a smaller bottle, it’s not as expensive.....lol

Produced in the municipality of Sucupira do Riachão in the State of Maranhão, northeast of Brazil. There isn't much information on the internet and the producer's website doesn't help at all. Apparently, cachaça is stored in jequitibá, amburana and oak barrels. In sensory analysis, the cachaça is balanced, correct alcohol, acidity and sugar, integrated wood, long finish. There is no information about the aging time in wood.

Asa Branca Cachaça is classified as standardized. This means that, according to Brazilian legislation, standardized cachaças must have the identification on the label: “standardized and bottled”. When the entire cachaça production process is carried out in the same production unit (planting, grinding, fermentation, distillation), the label will say “produced and bottled”. Owners of standardized cachaça brands do not carry out all the production stages and buy cachaça provided by third parties. Therefore, they do not necessarily need sugarcane fields, fermentation vats, distillation units or aging. Generally, these cachaças acquired from third parties have distinct aromas and flavors and it is the role of the standardizer to carry out procedures that leave these cachaças with the same final flavor – hence the idea of standardizing. Some techniques are used to achieve this standardization, including the redistillation of cachaça in copper stills and storage in wooden vats. This process was due to the need to produce a greater volume of cachaça. In short, this cachaça has an artisanal identity but its soul is industrial. But it wasn't always like that. .Cachaçaria Asa Branca was born in the 1970s, in Salinas, in the north of Minas Gerais, built from the passion that Joventino José de Queiroz had, as he was a great connoisseur of the drink and knew like no one else the secrets of how to distill a quality cachaça . He produced the drink as a hobby, since his main activity was livestock farming. One day, on a Sunday afternoon, drinking an aged spirit with friends, he realized that he needed to register his still and build a brand. If his second passion was music, at that moment he was playing the song Asa Branca, by Luiz Gonzaga, on his record player. Thus, Cachaça Asa Branca was born. After Joventino's death, the business was almost discontinued, but the family sold the company, which to this day shines in the Craft Cachaças market. Cachaça Asa Branca is manufactured in the heart of Salinas, 13km from the city center, at Fazenda Luar do Sertão. Cachaça Asa Branca Bálsamo e Ipê Ouro 600ml is stored for two years in amburana barrels. Light, has an alcohol content of 42%. It is packaged in traditional beer bottles. Produced 50 years ago in Salinas, in the north of Minas, it was named Asa Branca in honor of Brazilian music icon Luiz Gonzaga. Source: Mapa da Cachaça and Cachaçaria Nacional.

Cachaça Brumado Velho Carvalho is a traditional quality artisanal cachaça from Minas Gerais produced in the city of Brumadinho, in Minas Gerais. Stored for two years in oak barrels, the distillate has a slightly greenish straw yellow color, great aroma and taste, provides a smooth sensation with the alcohol and aging wood barely apparent, making the sugarcane flavor stand out. With 40% alcohol content, the drink has positive sensorial qualities that reveal the care taken in the traditional production of the excellent distillate. Source: Cachaçaria Nacional.