CACHAÇA ARTESANAL
THE SPIRIT OF BRAZIL
ABOUT PASSARO CACHAÇA
Passaro is a Cachaça (Kuh-SHA-Sa) Artesanal, a Brazilian spirit made from fresh sugarcane juice. Produced on a farm in the small city of Araxa, Minas Gerais, by our master distiller Paulino Chicrala.
Crafted to provide you an authentic taste of Brazil's highest quality cachaça to deliver a clean & smooth spirit, versatile and ideal for a variety of cocktails & mixes.
Use Passaro in Tiki inspired cocktails, replace the base spirit on your favourite classic or play around with different ingredients and make a unique cachaça cocktail.
And of course, don't forget to try the caipirinha and other classic Brazilian cocktails like the Batida de Coco & Rabo De Galo (The latter will please Negroni lovers)
For a simple mix, try the P&T - Passaro, Tonic & Lemon. (Hint: Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic Water).
The possibilities are endless and our goal is to showcase the versatility of this underutilised 500-year-old spirit!
Our Cachaça is aged for 3 years in Royal Mahogany barrels (Jequitibá is the Portuguese word) This is a neutral wood and it adds barely any colour to the cachaça, hence the clear spirit.
Order online (shipping Australia wide), if you’re in Perth check out the stockists' list to find a bottle shop near you.
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WHAT IS CACHAÇA?
[kuh-SHA-sa]
Cachaça is a spirit made from fresh sugarcane juice, and in most cases has an alcohol content of 40%.
IS CACHAÇA THE SAME AS RUM?
Although both spirits derive from sugarcane there is a fundamental difference that gives cachaça a wider characteristic aroma & flavour profile.
Cachaça is made using fresh sugarcane juice, fermented into an alcohol solution. While rum uses mostly watered down molasses to be fermented, a thick syrup made from extracting & refining raw sugar.
The uniqueness of the raw material (fresh sugarcane juice) is in part what gives cachaça a wider characteristic aroma and flavour profile.
Historically, cachaca predates rum by about 100 years, with the first known cachaça distillery in Brazil dating back to the early 1500s.
The closest cousin to cachaça is the Rhum Agricole, a type of rum mostly produced in the French-speaking islands of the West Indies & the Indian ocean. The Rhum Agricole came about a bit later around 1870.