text: In the mountains surrounding Rio de Janeiro at an altitude around 800 meters we find the Magnifica de Faria distillery, active since 1985. It’s the only cachaça distillery in Brazil using the ‘alegria’ distillation : 3 pot stills, with the first one acting as a ‘chaufe vin’. Named after the Fária family, and ‘Magnifica’ because the lady of the house was the very first female Rectora Magnifica of the Santa Ursula university in Rio.
  
  A very aromatic cachaça with a firm nose of sweet banana. Also subtle sweetness in the taste and rather fruity with a nice wood influence. This cachaça combines the best of the spirit (grassy) with the best of the fermentation (fruity) and the best of the maturation in the noble ipê wood. Idea lto drink pure or to make top-notch cocktails