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Neil Gaiman signed cachaça bottle
Originally uploaded by André Elias
Now here's a heckuva gift. A (no doubt very good) friend of Flickr member André Elias gave him a bottle of Coqueiro cachaça signed by none other than Neil Gaiman. As he points out, it even made the papers.
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Hi. My name is Phil Gomes. By day, I work at a public relations firm as its senior vice president of digital integration. I'm a proud SF East Bay native who currently lives in Chicago.
I was introduced to cachaça by my wife, a Carioca. Her mom, in turn, is the president of the Confraria de Cachaça do Copo Furado, a group that meets monthly to talk about Brazil's indigenous spirit. I participated in one of their meetings when I vacationed in Rio in July 2008.
This started me thinking about the basic question of whether cachaça in the U.S. is today where, say, tequila was some decades ago.
So I decided to start this blog as a means to record and share the cachaça-related items I've been seeing day-to-day. I hope to be sharing recipes, impressions, and random thoughts as the U.S. continues to catch on to the potential for this particular spirit.
Oh... The name? "Cachaçagora" is a portmanteau of "Cachaça" and "agora", which is the Portuguese word for "now". In Greek, "agora" also means public square. I hope to meet the expectations of both.
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Hallo,
I can give you some background information on Coqueiro:
It's a cachaca from Paraty, they call their distillate 'Pinga' (english: drop) there.
Coqueria sells a lot of cachaca's with flavors like pineapple and other fruits. The one in the picture is probably a 'caramelizado' flavored with syrop.
Paraty is traditional town on the green coast 150 km from rio de janeiro city with a great tradition for cachaca, they still have a dozen traditional distilleries (alambiques). Yearly they have their pinga festival.
Best regards
Frank (from Holland)
Posted by: Frank | July 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Hey! Thanks for stopping by. How did you originally come across this brand?
Posted by: Phil | July 19, 2008 at 05:41 PM