Cabana Cachaça (kah-SHAH-sah) was launched in 2006 by Matti Anttila, an entrepreneur with a passion for Brazil]]. Cachaça is the national spirit of Brasil and the oldest spirit in the Americas. It was first produced in the early 15th century, and while all Cachaça comes from Brasil, Cabana Cachaça is the only premium single-estate cachaça on the market. Although the third most distilled spirit in the world, cachaça, was relatively unknown in outside of Brasil until recently. Currently labeled “Brasilian Rum” by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau in the United States, cachaça differs from traditional Caribbean rums in that it must be distilled from freshly pressed sugarcane as opposed to molasses. There are negotiations under way to allow for recognition of Cachaça as its own category in the U.S., though this would require Brasil to recognize Tennessee whiskey and Bourbon as separate categories in Brasil.
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Produced entirely at its distillery outside São Paulo, Cabana utilizes an innovative production method that eliminates the impurities responsible for cachaça’s sometimes harsh taste, without compromising any of the spirit’s unique characteristics.
Unlike most other rums, which are created from molasses, Cachaça is fermented and distilled using freshly pressed sugarcane. Cabana Cachaça undergoes a unique double distillation process to ensure the spirit has a rich, round and smooth flavor profile.
While most cachaças are only distilled once, Cabana Cachaça goes through copper pot stills twice to remove the undesirable components commonly found in standard cachaça such as copper residue, harmful natural acids and the more potent, undesirable alcoholic compounds, while isolating and retaining the most important aspects of each distillation, including the perfectly balanced bouquet.
Cabana is made with the highest quality ingredients, including specially selected local sugarcane that has been hand-cut and freshly pressed. Cabana Cachaça is hand crafted in small batches, double-distilled in copper pot stills and mellowed for nine months in Brazilian Jequitibá Rosa wood barrels.
Cabana Cachaça was awarded a Double Gold Medal at the 2009 San Francisco World Spirits Competition as well as two consecutive Gold Medals in the 2008 and 2009 Ministry of Rum Tasting Competitions. Cabana Cachaça also received a 94 point rating by influential spirits critic Anthony Dias Blue in the Tasting Panel Magazine.
In 2010, Matti Anttila and Philippe Houdard, Founder and President of Developing Minds Foundation, announced a yearlong commitment to a program that raises funds for the Foundation, whose mission includes funding education projects aimed at children in Brazil’s impoverished favelas.
As part of the effort to support Developing Minds Foundation’s projects, Cabana Cachaça has committed to donating $1 per bottle sold in 2010 to the Foundation. The funds will be earmarked for the Foundation’s education projects in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Cabana Cachaça will also be working with its partners in the hospitality industry, from wholesalers and accounts to marketing partners, to create impactful programs that educate consumers and trade on the issue of poverty in Brazil, multiplying the ultimate benefit to the Foundation.