The Singapore start-up was named top seven trending brand in the world in Drinks International's Annual Brands Report 2018
With already so much about the local drinks scene to toast to, news that a homegrown Singapore spirits brand is making its mark on the global scene is just the sort of icing on the cake we only dared imagine. To boot, it’s not the hipster liquor one might assume. Launched in 2014 in Singapore, Maracatu Cachaça, the island’s first and only brand of premium artisan cachaça, has been named the 7th trending cachaça brand and the 8th best-selling cachaça brand in the Annual Brands Report 2018 published by Drinks International.
The international spirits industry magazine had interviewed 106 of the best bars globally, relating to their best-selling brands in each spirits category as well as to the brands they see as trending right now, it shared in a recent announcement.
“It means a lot to us to be recognised among leading brands in the spirits world,” shares Catarina Longman, who saw a gap in the market for a made-for-the-region premium cachaça—a native Brazilian spirit made from pure sugar cane juice—when she founded the company with her partner Andreas Schneider in 2013. “It means that our efforts and dedication have been somewhat validated, that we are heading in the right direction.”