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Brazil
Home of cachaça, a cane-juice spirit whose name is reserved for Brazilian producers. Brazil's sugar plantations supplied the cane that started Barbados' sugar industry, and slavery there lasted until 1888.
Character
Cachaça (cane-juice aguardente) and, separately defined, rum.
Cane, slavery and cachaça
When Barbados planters began making sugar in the 1640s, they took their cane from Pernambuco in Brazil, and the Guadeloupe GI specification also credits settlers from Brazil with early know-how. Brazil was the last country in the Americas covered by this batch to end slavery, by the law of 13 May 1888.
Cachaça is defined by decree as aguardente de cana produced in Brazil at 38 to 48 % vol., and protected as a geographical indication since 2001.
How it connects
Style
- related Cachaça
History
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- CountryBrazil10 entries in the atlas so far
- StyleCachaçaProtected name
- HistoryLei Áurea: abolition of slavery in Brazil (1888)13 May 1888
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