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Now that Brazil is slated to become the first South American country to host the Olympics, maybe Americans will pay more attention to one of its finest exports: cachaça. Made from fermented sugar cane ...

You'll want to add this to your calendar: Ashley Williams' Save The Date, which complements cachaça with tamarind concentrate and bitter liqueur.(Marc Ramirez) If the main reason you don't drink ...

A trip to Brazil's Copacabana Beach may not be in the cards, but you might hear Samba music playing when you sip a cocktail made with cachaça, the South American country's national spirit. Not ...

After having the best caipirinha we had ever had (in the States) at Artista last week, some friends and I decided to have a cachaca tasting at home and make our own caipirinhas. To go with our ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — It’s tempting to call cachaça a Brazilian rum and think of the caipirinha as another muddled tropical cocktail. The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro may change that. Brazil’s national ...

This week, while rearranging my bar cart, I rediscovered a bottle of cachaça, which I had only ever used to make the iconic caipirinha. It’s a great drink, but I hate monotony, even in my cocktails, ...

It’s almost always summer in Brazil, so it should come as no surprise the refreshing-and-fruity caipirinha is the South American country’s national cocktail. Luckily for D.C., a rising mix of Latin ...

It’s about time the caipirinha caught on. For 21 years, I’ve watched this lovely little cocktail coyly circle the bar, hoping to be noticed. When I married a Brazilian, Otavio Silva, the potent ...