CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: ALL THE BEST WINES AND SPIRITS TO SPREAD HOLIDAY CHEER
BY JANICE WILLIAMS ON 12/20/18Christmas is approaching and the holiday party invites just keep rolling in. The problem, though, is that you have nothing to bring and showing up to your friend’s ugly sweater party empty handed is obviously the first step to landing on...
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A Look Inside the Un-Endangered Forest
Organic farming is a year-round job. Our team at the Novo Fogo distillery in the small town of Morretes spends most of the year working to grow healthy sugarcane. We till the fields, tend to young sugarcane, and do our best to keep the jungle from encroaching the cane...
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History in a Bottle: September 13th is National Cachaça Day in Brazil
September 13th is recognized as Dia Nacional da Cachaça (National Cachaça Day) in Brazil and it commemorates an important chapter in the sugarcane spirit’s fabled history. Cachaça is considered the first distilled cane spirit in…
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Why Cachaça Matters: A Novo Fogo Webinar Series
Want to deepen your knowledge about cachaça, Brazil’s national spirit? No plane tickets are necessary — you don’t even have to put on your pants. Join us for our three-part webinar series with Novo Fogo’s CEO, Dragos Axinte. Throughout the…
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Consequences of Delight: The Sustainability of Using Native Brazilian Woods in Cachaça Production
We are an organic cachaça producer in the middle of the largest swath of protected South Atlantic Rainforest, so we are constantly thinking about the sustainability of our business and spirit category…
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Brazilian Sangria is a Perfect Party Punch
Sangria’s reputation can be admittedly polarizing. For some, it will conjure up sour memories of an overly-sweet concoction carelessly slung together to enliven a bottle of cheap wine, its random assortment of sliced fruit bobbing like flotsam in a pitcher of liquid...
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Novo Fogo Sales Partnerships Are Spreading the Fire Nationwide!
With two growing sales partnerships in the U.S., the fire for Novo Fogo cachaça is spreading fast! We are delighted to announce our partnerships with Salisbury Creative Group and Crafted Cask to provide expanded…
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Novo Fogo’s “Brazilian Zen Den” at Tales of the Cocktail 2017
Novo Fogo is returning to New Orleans for another year of wellness and balance at Tales of the Cocktail 2017! Our team will host a “Brazilian Zen Den,” in the Royal Sonesta Hotel’s Jazz Playhouse on Wednesday and Thursday mornings to provide attendees a moment…
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How to Customize a Caipirinha with Seasonal Fruit
The Caipirinha’s simple combination of cachaça, lime, and sugar opens a myriad of opportunities for other seasonal fruits to join the party. In Brazil, Caipirinhas with muddled fruit are called Caipifrutas and some of the…
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The Story Behind the Novo Fogo Tree
Although it may look like it was drawn from a Dr. Seuss story, the unusually-shaped tree at the center of our logo is actually an important symbol in southern Brazil. It is called an araucaria (ah-row-CAH-ree-ah), a.k.a. the pinheiro-do-Paraná, the Paraná pine. So how...
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Novo Fogo Releases a Carbonated Caipirinha Cocktail in a Can
Nearly five years ago, a sparkle of inspiration struck Dragos Axinte, Novo Fogo’s founder and CEO: what if the Caipirinha, Brazil’s beloved mixture of lime, sugar, and cachaça, could be carbonated? Around that time, carbonated
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How We’re Partnering with Family Cachaça Distilleries for a Sustainable Future
As worldwide demand for Novo Fogo organic cachaça increases, we must confront a serious question: how can we expand our capacity for growing sugarcane without harming the environment or depleting the land’s resources?
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Novo Fogo Kicks Off European Distribution with a Five-City Tour
Your eyes do not deceive you: Novo Fogo is launching in Europe! This is an exciting next step for us as we spread the joys of organic and barrel-aged cachaças on a new continent that has long shared cultural ties to Brazil. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...
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Brazilian Boilermakers with Novo Fogo Barrel-Aged Cachaças and Beer
Brazil produces and consumes a lot of cachaça. But contrary to the popular perception that most of the national spirit is consumed in its silver, unaged form, typically destined for Caipirinhas, the majority of cachaças that Brazilians sip are barrel-aged. It is in...
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Barreado: A Brazilian Carnival Dish That Became a Regional Icon
What is the most satisfying food to sustain a three-day-long festival in the streets, filled with swirling dance parties, vibrant samba parades, and free-flowing Caipirinhas? During Carnival in the coastal region of Brazil’s Paraná state, the answer is a hearty dish...
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Four Citrus Fruits That Will Elevate Your Cocktail Game
Although the conventional wisdom is that refreshing, citrusy drinks like the Caipirinha are best enjoyed in the heat of the summertime, the truth is that citrus fruits are ripest in the cooler months in North America. Besides, a bright and juicy cocktail is…
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Doing Well by Doing Right: A Letter from Novo Fogo’s CEO
Hello Industry Members! Recently I noticed a lot of curiosity in the distilled spirits world about the people who do the hard work in the field. This is awesome! These folks are rarely visible to those pouring or imbibing spirits in bars, so any opportunity we have to…
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How to Make Cachaça-Spiked Eggnog from Scratch
Scratch eggnog is not a cocktail — it is a baking project. So take heed mixologists, you are now in the baker’s world. You may no longer improvise, you will require extra tools, and the techniques are different than the usual tricks of the bar. But worry not, you…
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How to Make Cachaça-Spiked Eggnog the Easy Way
Eggnog is a delightful holiday drink, and the effort required to enjoy it represents quite a spectrum. But on that spectrum, somewhere between sweating into a bowl of bespoke eggnog tediously made from scratch and taking home a plastic jug of…
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Novo Fogo by the Book: Shrubs
Even though we are big advocates of green living — and even once jokingly advertised a kale-flavored cachaça — when we say that Novo Fogo and shrubs pair wonderfully together, we’re not talking about bushy plants. We’re talking about the drinks known as shrubs that are coming back into style as…
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The Novo Fogo Bartenders’ Soccer Cup 2015
Like a quality bottle of Barrel-Aged Cachaça, the Novo Fogo Bartenders’ Soccer Cup just keeps getting better with time. This year during Portland Cocktail Week, our annual indoor soccer tournament for bartenders featured the most impressive play to date…
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The Novo Fogo “Bars on Fire” Series: 3 Years and 100 Events
Over the past three years, we have sponsored 100 events across the USA in our “Bars on Fire” event series. These Brazilian cocktail parties invited a couple of soccer jersey-wearing guest bartenders to make drinks at a host bar, giving the guest mixologists…
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Novo Fogo Miles at Tales of the Cocktail 2015
Our second annual Novo Fogo Miles 5K “Dash of Balance” during Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans was a great success. We encouraged Talers to start their day with an energizing run through the streets of the French Quarter and along the Mississipp…
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Novo Fogo Leaps Forward with Distillery Acquisition
The Novo Fogo brand was launched in 2010, after founders Dragos and Emily Axinte scoured Brazil for a distillery that produced organic cachaça with a keen eye towards sustainability. To their delight, they discovered a cutting-edge, zero-waste…
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The Novo Fogo Guide to Balance at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans
Heaven has muffaleta sandwiches that grow from trees and beignets that fall from the sky, right into your hands, ready to be dipped into flowing streams of freshly brewed coffee. Yes, heaven is a lot like New Orleans: expect the people to be friendly and…
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Novo Fogo’s Special Release Cachaças for 2015
It is a good year for aged cachaça! We’re proud to announce that we’re expanding our line of barrel-aged cachaças with four new Special Release expressions for 2015. Why? It’s our mission to share Brazil’s best cachaças with the outside world to illustrate…
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