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September 24, 2008

Review: Boca Loca

Boca Loca

The folks at Boca Loca found me here at Cachaçagora and thoughtfully sent over a bottle for review.

Overall, good. For those of you who perhaps tire of cachaças aged in old oak barrels, Boca Loca offers a nice alternative that you ought to try — 90 days in native Brazilian jequitibá barrels

The very strong caramel flavors darn near put this cachaça into liqueur territory. Highly drinkable, especially straight, but you're really going to want to be careful with this one.

Thankfully, this cachaça has better distribution than many, though I haven't yet seen it in Chicago liquor stores. You can see where to buy Boca Loca thanks to this handy map.

Three-and-a-half barrels for Boca Loca. If you find this one, tell me what you think.

Oh... Just to keep everything in one place, here's a cocktail recipe, the Herb Cane, that I pointed to earlier.

Posted by on September 24, 2008 at 07:37 AM in Boca Loca, My Reviews, Rating: 3.5 Barrels |

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I haven't seen this one around at all. Come to think of it, I haven't seen cachaça anywhere else but liquor stores.

Maybe I just don't get out much.

By the way, you're coming to my Tweetup at Jake's next Friday, right?

Posted by: Daniel | September 24, 2008 at 08:04 AM

Hey! Missed it. Sorry. Traveling like a maniac!

Posted by: Phil | September 27, 2008 at 09:11 AM

It was the only cachaça available at my local liquor store in Portland, OR when I last went, but the OLCC website also claims that Leblon can be found as well. So fair Boca Loca has been good for caipirinhas, but I'm going to see how well it does in other cocktails. There's some homemade ginger beer sitting in my fridge waiting to be used for modified Dark & Stormy's.

Posted by: Jordan Devereaux | December 18, 2009 at 04:16 PM

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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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