Sagatiba Featured on Drink Spirits

May 23, 2010

Sagatiba Featured on Drink Spirits

Sagatiba's John Gakuru is, inarguably, one of the hardest-working cachaça evangelists working today. (And, sweet Buddha on a big-ass biscuit, easily among the most well-traveled!)

Drink Spirits has a great feature on Sagatiba, which includes one of John's drinks in particular:

Rio Bravo

1/2 inch square piece of ginger diced

1 oz Orgeat (Trader Tiki Syrup)

1 oz Lime juice

2 oz Sagatiba Pura cachaça

Combine the ingredients and then shake, strain and serve up. Garnish with an orange peel.

I'm expecting further cachaca explorations from Drink Spirits:

One of the things we enjoy the most about running Drink Spirits is the opportunity to discover and share new things. Cachaça is exactly the kind of spirit we started this site to cover. It’s one not too many people are familiar with and it’s exceptionally enjoyable. Enjoying spirits is a journey and cachaça is a great stop that we heartily recommend.

Update 2010-05-24: Drink name corrected.

Posted by Phil Gomes on May 23, 2010 at 10:39 PM in Cocktails, Sagatiba | Permalink

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Are you going to get a review of Velha up one of these days?

Posted by: Jordan | May 26, 2010 at 08:19 PM

Ah, Velha...

Sagatiba's then-PR-firm sent over two samplers. One was richly enjoyed. Another got lost in the move, I think. I'll ask the Sagatiba gang to see if I can get some.

Posted by: Phil Gomes | May 31, 2010 at 08:43 PM

If you want a lot more, it's only $20/750 mL plus shipping at HiTimes Wine. Not a bad deal at all if you're going to order some other stuff at the same time.

Posted by: Jordan | June 02, 2010 at 04:56 PM

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About Cachaçagora

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.
Saúde!
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May 23, 2010