SUGARCANE is the heart and soul of any cachaça. As such, the quality of the cane and the manner in which it is harvested often means the difference between a beautiful cachaça and a mediocre one.

HARVESTED BY HAND and grown locally, painstaking effort is made to ensure that the sugarcane used to craft Espirito XVI Cachaça remains pure and untouched by soil. This is in stark contrast to many other cachaças which, in an effort to maximize production at the expense of quality, mechanically harvest their cane from fields that have been set ablaze in order eliminate wildlife that may interfere with their ability to quickly collect as much as possible.

FRESHLY PRESSED reeds of cane yield a sweet nectar which is then collected and quickly introduced to the fermentation process. Reducing the amount be time between harvest and distillation means that Espirito XVI Cachaça does not have to pasteurize its cane juice, a process that significantly compromises its integrity and diminishes its natural complexity