Old Barreiro Cachaça

1L

Velho Barreiro is one of the most popular cachaças in Brazil because of its delicate aroma—due to the very careful distillation methods employed. It can be used to prepare a caipirinha or other fruit cocktails. Cachaça, pinga, cana, or canha is the name given to sugarcane spirit, a typically Brazilian alcoholic beverage. Its name may have originated from the old Iberian language—cachaza—meaning lees wine, an inferior wine drunk in Portugal and Spain. In colonial sugar production, cachaça was the name given to the first foam that rose to the surface of the boiling sugarcane juice. It was fed to animals or discarded. The second foam was consumed by slaves, especially after it fermented, and also came to be called cachaça. Later, with the distillation of the fermented foam and molasses and the production of low-quality spirits, this also came to be called cachaça and was supplied to slaves or purchased by low-income people.

Alcohol Content: 38%