On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:36:15 -0500, "pavane"
> wrote:

>With all due deference, a true Caipirinha, which is a Brazilian
>drink, uses Cachaça, a Brazilian rum variant. Aguardiente is
>more of an ouzo or other anise-scented beverage, made in
>Columbia, not at all what the proper Cachaça offers in its
>almost rum-scented hot and assertive cane sugar distillate
>made only in Brazil. Try them against each other; nevermore
>will "Aguardiente" pass your lips in the context of Caipirinha.

I was introduced to the caipirinha in Peru, where they used
aguardiente. I've had the caipirinha in Brazil, but under their
version which they called "pinga" (phonetic spelling, cannot recall)
and, IIRC, is rude in Spanish.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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