Cachaça Amélia

Cachaça Amélia has been produced since 1916, in Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais. João da Amélia, as he was known and recognized, showed up at Fazenda Santa Luzia with an imposing six-meter-diameter water wheel, an iron mill suit, a gleaming copper still and fermentation tanks. The cane fields surrounded the property, extending the green to feed the mill's hunger. Thus, due to the stubbornness of João da Amélia, what would become the most appreciated pinga in the region was born. So appreciated that fame reached the cities of Cambuí and Córrego do Bom Jesus. It didn't take long and the farm's troop of twenty donkeys, carrying an enormity of 1,500 liters of the drink, began to cross the roads to distribute the cachaça among drovers and villages. It's a simple cachaça but the prodution of Amélia is traditional. Source: Cachaçaria Nacional.