Is this the same agricultural rum we know?
Cachaça is sometimes called Brazilian rum, but from a taste perspective, it has a very distinctive flavor. It is indeed smoother with notes of toasted aromas. This flavor is partly due to the Brazilian wood used for aging. Remember that rum is aged exclusively in oak barrels.
Furthermore, unlike rum, the vesou used in cachaça production is not heated, but used fresh. Due to the lack of heating, the Brazilian beverage still contains aldehydes and esters, which explain its very distinct taste, so beloved by Brazilians.
To clearly distinguish the two, Brazil decided to protect the name "Cachaça" by Decree 6871/2009.53. According to this legal text, the beverage is defined as follows:
"Cachaça is the typical and exclusive name for a sugarcane spirit produced in Brazil, with an alcohol content of 38 to 48 percent, obtained by distillation of fermented must with particular sensory characteristics and with sugar up to 6 grams per liter."
There are currently nearly 4,000 brands of cachaça in Brazil, including spirits aged in barrels for more than 15 years.
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