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 ...

There are a lot of spirits, and many get their flavor from different materials used throughout the aging process — but none ...

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With the sweltering summer months on the way, it’s time to shake up your cocktail game. READ: 10 Low-Calorie Summer Cocktails And for some much-needed inspiration, we recommend heading down south, to ...

If summer is for bottomless caipirinhas, winter is all about warming quentão. Here are recipes for both. If it’s not made with cachaça, it’s not a caipirinha.Credit...Bobbi Lin for The New York Times.

I did not go to Rio for the mist. But as I walked along the curve of Ipanema beach my first morning there, the sky was the color of a nickel and was drizzling down a fine, weightless rain. It had sent ...

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A genuine Brazilian drink, cachaça is the spirit most consumed in the country and the third in the world. The caipirinha drink (cachaça, sugar, lime and ice) is on the menu of bars and restaurants of ...