Though Brazil is the third-largest producer of wine in South America – after Argentina and Chile – it is probably for … its popular spirit cachaça that it is most famous. Single-distilled from fresh, fermented sugarcane juice, cachaça is a spicy, sweet, and fruity liquor. To be deemed cachaça, it must be produced within Brazil and have an alcohol by volume (abv) from 38 to 48%. From small-batch producers to large industry entities, Brazil makes roughly 800 million litres of cachaça per yea