Amázzoni guides the craft gin category throughout Brazil with a production process fully sustainable from beginning to end with zero waste.

In a country producing cachaça, the caipirinha was the only cocktail of choice, that is until Italian architect Arturo Isola demanded a gin laced Negroni. In 2017, Amázzoni was born, marking Brazil’s first-ever craft gin spirit.

 

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“A new craft movement started to take place and different kinds of spirits were being produced, the gin category as the most shining star,” shares founder Isola.

Not only did Isola fill a void in the Brazilian market for high-quality, locally made gin but achieved the first (and biggest) independent gin-only distillery in Latin America.

Meaning Amazons or female warriors, Amázzoni pays tribute to the world’s largest rainforest in South America—famed for its biodiversity—by foraging five native botanicals from five biomes to develop a London Dry-style gin. The distillery sits on an 18th-century coffee farm in Paraíba Valley northwest of Rio de Janeiro.

 

Amázzoni has brought the real taste of the Amazon Forest to the states with two gins – Amázzoni Gin and Rio Negro.

• Amázzoni Gin: A “simple, educational gin” for new drinkers; folding first-time botanicals into the juniper base: Brazilian nut, cocoa, maxixe, cipò cravo, and Victoria regia (a type of water lily).
• Rio Negro: A richer, more complex version of the original gin; swapping maxixe and cipó cravo from the still with more cocoa from Bahia, citrus, and laurel leaves. “[It’s] a gin I like,” Isola shares.

 

Since launching, Amázzoni has won several prestigious awards including 2018’s ‘World’s Best Craft Producer’ in London and Double Gold medal in the 2019 San Francisco World Spirit Competition, while remaining a socially conscious, environmentally sustainable brand committed to Amazon conservation (and culture).

 

 

 

Negroni da Fazenda

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Amázzoni Rio Negro au chocolat*
• 1 oz. Campari
• ½ oz. Red Vermouth
• ¼ oz. Amaro Lucano or similar

Preparation: Put the ingredients into a mixing glass and then add ice. Stir slightly and strain into a glass tumbler with a solid ice-cube inside. Garnish with an orange slice and a cocoa seed. *Amázzoni au chocolat. Macerate 1½ tbsp. of cocoa seeds into 750ml of Amázzoni gin for 24 hours.

 

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Source: Mixology News