Sugar and Lime Cocktail

Of all things Brazilian, you’ve probably heard of the caipirinha, our heraldic emblem and one of Brazil’s greatest contributions to the food and wine world. The spirit behind it, cachaça, was invented in the mid-1500s in Brazil when Portuguese colonisers began to cultivate sugar cane. Somewhere in a sugar mill around São Paulo, some stems of rough sugar cane were forgotten, left to sit around and fermented into a foamy juice. The drink, though non-alcoholic, had a strong effect on the body