Cachaça is a Brazilian rum-like sugarcane based spirit. Earlier this year I slammed Cachaça in an offhand manner, based on my experience in trying one brand. Dave Catania, aka “Cachaça Dave”, commented and challenged me to try the brand of Cachaça that he imports, “Fazenda Mae de Ouro”.
I’ve accepted the challenge. Here’s the full review:
I’ll be honest: the only reason I did this in a videoblog format is that a certain friendly company loaned me an HD-format dv camera, and I wanted to try it out. I apologize in advance for the poor lighting, the bad editing, and the general ugliness of my face, body, and spirit.
I also apologize for my tragically consistent mispronounciation of “cachaça”, which my friend Francisco tells me is in fact pronounced “cashassa”, and not “catchassa.” I guess this is my comeuppance for giving people grief about mispronouncing the italian appetizer as “brushetta,” rather than “brusketta.”
Aww, everyone’s drinking exotic booze but me. I’m gonna go drown my sorrow with a few tins of Dutch Gold.
On a sidenote, am I to infer from the lack of a BioShock: Day 2 blog that it’s a pretty engrossing game?
Yeah. Bioshock is good enough to play to the end, which means it’s better than 9.99/10 games. Will have more thoughts when I’m done.
Peter- don’t feel bad about mispronouncing the name, Portuguese is very foreign to the US American ear. Regarding Pitu- it is the bottom of the barrel in Brazil, available for a few dollars per bottle in the grocery store. The best cachaca is consumed on a bright winter afternoon with feijoada on a fazenda, just a few meters from the barn where it was distilled.
Peter, thanks for taking the challenge and thanks for the kind words about Mae De Ouro. Really a very nice video that you’ve made here.
Now, we MUST get you a proper muddler…. Shoot me your mailing address please and I’ll send one out to you.
Cheers!
-Dave
I always knew that one day this “weblog” caper would pay off. Thanks, Dave!
Don’t do it, it’s a delicious Brazilian trap!