The story
Twenty-four years to the first sip.
The estate
Xanadu was born on an estate in Santa Catarina crossed by seven springs. The water runs through the still and the blending. Without it there would be no cachaça — and no legend of a place where everything is perfect.
A company registered with Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, running one of the most carefully kept craft pot-still cachaça facilities in the region. One hundred and sixty thousand litres are aging right now, for six, eight, ten and fifteen years. The oldest barrels were sealed by federal inspectors.
Timeline
- 1
2008
Salinas
The founder is honored in the world capital of cachaça, at the opening of its world festival, before more than fifteen thousand guests.
- 2
The still
The heart
The decision never to bottle the heads or the tails. What is left over becomes fuel. What remains is nobility.
- 3
Wood
Four accents
Carvalho, castanheira, bálsamo, jequitibá, amburana, grápia and more. The Madeiras line, for those who no longer drink cachaça — they drink time.
- 4
Intisica
To provoke
In the Azorean speech of the coast, intisicar means to catch the eye. Ceramics, gold and silver — gift, tasting, collection.
- 5
Legends
Bruaca and Nhô Bento
The witch and the hermit of the island's south. Six-year cachaça and a fine fig liqueur, in glass and in ceramic.
The process
From the spring to the barrel.
Copper still
Chosen cane, Minas Gerais-style distillation in verdigris-free copper. Only the heart goes on — about 30% of each run (heads and tails) becomes ethanol for the fleet.
A thousand barrels
Carvalho from Europe and the US, jequitibá, bálsamo and castanheira from northern Brazil. A chemist on staff, a master distiller, blends made in the lab.
The estate in Blumenau
More than a million square meters, 3,500 m² built. Two hundred and fifty thousand litres a year, under the rite of MAPA.
To preserve is to thank the green canopy.
A lighter footprint
Making cachaça without laying waste to the estate. Sustainable development as gratitude, not as a slogan.
Recycling
Heads and tails become fuel for the fleet. What would be waste goes back into the cycle.
Wastewater
Vinasse and used water are treated and tested before they return to the springs.
Responsibility
Bringing you an exceptional cachaça without harming the planet that made it possible.
“And you thought the best of Blumenau was the beer.”