Pitu Cachaca

Pitú is the best-known cachaça in the world, made since 1938 in Vitória de Santo Antão in the Zona da Mata of Pernambuco, the sugarcane belt of northeastern Brazil, by the Cândido Carneiro and Ferrer de Morais families, whose fourth and fifth generations still run the company. The name comes from the big freshwater shrimp that once filled the stream running through the founders' land, which is why a red pitu shrimp sits on every label. The company started out making vinegar and bottling local aguardente, then bought the Engenho Arandú do Coito and began distilling its own, growing into an integrated operation that controls everything from cane to bottling line; Pitú has been sold in Germany since 1972. The spirit is distilled from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice grown in the region's dark massapê soil, single distilled to keep its aromatics, and rested briefly in wood before bottling clear at 40% ABV in this one-liter bottle. Published notes describe fresh cane and cut grass with a little pastry on the nose, a light, citrusy palate of sugarcane, green banana and herbs, and a short, lightly sweet, gently spicy finish. It exists for the caipirinha.

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