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January 31, 2007
New Cuca Fresca Cachaça Coming Soon
Araci Ferreira Slasinki, a fifth-generation cachaça maker, has collaborated with Agudente Caribena Ltd., to create Cuca Fresca, a new premium line of Brazilian cachaças made specifically for the international market. This 40-percent alcohol-by-volume spirit, named after the Portuguese translation for “cool head,” had its debut in Miami this month and is set to begin rolling out in the Northeast.
Cuca Fresca ($19.95 per 750-ml. bottle) is produced from sugarcane juice that’s distilled in copper pots. The artisan-crafted cachaça is packaged in a bottle depicting the Brazilian flag and comes with a wooden stirrer.
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Dating back more than 400 years, cachaça is Brazil’s most popular spirit and is beginning to gain favor in the U.S. amidst a growing interest in cocktails with Latin flair like Capirinhas.
Prestige Chateaux & Domains distributes the spirit in the on- and off-premise throughout the Miami-metro area, and ACE Distributors recently signed on as its Northeastern distributor. Next month, Cuca Fresca Pura Gold—which is aged in oak barrels up to five years to produce the sipping cachaça’s vanilla and oak notes—will also launch in the U.S.
Source: “New Cachaça Begins Rollout,” Bridget Eldridge, Wine Spectator, January 30, 2007
Posted by fortna at January 31, 2007 04:45 AM
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