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THE FUTURE IS LIGHT
Amázzoni Maniuara
The latest gin of the Amázzoni collection
AMÁZZONI IS THE NEW BLACK
meet Rio Negro, a new gin

(G)introduction

A cereal alcohol based spirit, with aromatic herbs and spices - the famous botanicals. If we consider the Plymouth papers, as composed in the British town where modern-day gin evolved from Dutch Jenever, the making of a good gin seems to be child’s play or the raw application of a mathematical formula.

Instead, there are people making gin out of apples, potatoes, wine and others by adding saffron, cucumbers, petals and leaves, or officinal plants, supposedly to create a phenomenal final outcome. In the more than four hundred years since gin production started, for sure, everything has been seen and drunk. Never, though, has a premium gin been made in Brazil. After all, there has never been a gin distillery here. Nor has a gin ever been so able to highlight & mix to perfection the gifts of this prodigal land and its people’s spirit with the respect for a centuries-old sampling tradition.

Born in the enchanted atmosphere of the Cachoeira Farm, its home is the first gin-only distillery in Brazil. Amazzoni is a 100% Brazilian product in terms of philosophy, ingredients and the manufacturing process. And in four hundred years this was unheard of. Until now.

Manifesto

Das águas nasceu a estrela

Purity: the same water that feeds the Amazon gives life to our gin. Transparent water like a drop of rain water hanging from a forest leaf, fresh like untouched nature in the deep Amazon, crystal clear and natural like the happy, sunny spirit of our people. From all this, an unseen, amazing blend now flows out, with botanicals never before used in a gin recipe, mixed by ‘Captain Tato’ Giovannoni, one of South America’s most eminent mixologists, who has no fear of innovation, even when it comes to the respect due to the popular wisdom of a centuries-old tasting tradition. Old and New Worlds meet and embrace, becoming one, as was the case with Naià, the Guarani Indian. Innocent and a daydreamer, she wanted to marry Jaci, the great lunar warrior. If you can catch him, she was told, you’ll become a star.

For a long time, the beautiful youth ran every night with her arms out-stretched, trying to embrace her love. Until one night, she saw the reflection of the moon in a body of water and threw herself into her loved-one’s arms, but she didn’t know how to swim and the dark waters swallowed her; dragged her down into the depths. That was when, through her pure, naive ambition; her desire to shine, Jaci noticed the young Indian. Touched with admiration at such purity, he transformed her into a star. Today, in every drop of our gin, there is a renewal of Naià and Jaci’s union, between popular wisdom and vision, passion and daring, water as the source of life and the magic of the Amazon rainforest.

Amázzoni Gin and Amázzoni Rio Negro are deeply Brazilian, courageously against the grain, proud of their dreams, rooted in their own territory, but so contagiously cosmopolitan, pure, true, naive even, but aiming for the stars. The true nature of Amázzoni gin is born of the desire to offer the world the hidden notes of the Amazon and Brazil, lesser-known and, precisely for this reason, more genuine.

THE WORLD BEST
CRAFT GIN
PRODUCER
IS BRAZILIAN

Handmade gin produced in the first exclusive gin distillery in Brazil.

To create an exclusive design going back to the Renaissance medicine bottles, we revived artisanal techniques with recycled glass. The embrace that protects Amázzoni gin had to be special, like the liquid that rests in it. The bottles are produced one by one and their perfection is measured by the artisans’ watchful eyes alone. That’s why even the little imperfections are precious details that testify to the whole manufacturing process.

51% ABV.
BORN UNDO
A GOOD STAR,
OR RATHER,
TWO.

The first Brazilian gin to gain
a Double Gold Medal in the San
Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Black and white. Day and night. Fire and water. All of us have another side to us and Amázzoni is no exception. Two years since the launch of our first gin, a new nectar was born in our distillery, the first Super Premium gin produced in Brazil. An ambitious recipe, created by the new Master Distiller Alexandre Mazza, one of the brand’s founders, offers a more daring, solid and complex London Dry. The preparation has changed. Together with the classic cold-pressed botanical infusion, some solid botanicals were added directly into the still: juniper, coriander and lemon peel.From the classical Amázzoni recipe, two ingredients were removed (maxixe and cipó cravo).
But the balance of Old and New World ingredients was precisely maintained. The 51% alcohol content guarantees a more intense, fuller experience, which is more irresistible in lighter, denser drinks. They remain identical insofar as they maintain the craft-making process, the highest quality raw materials used and passion in every step of the way to reach the final result. The water and the qualities of this earth, our sacred fire – both intensely Brazilian and boldly cosmopolitan. Come try Amázzoni Rio Negro.

A light breaks through. Meet Maniuara, the gin you won’t expected

Amázzoni Maniuara is the first ever Brazilian Old Tom and, with just 38% ABV, the lightest gin out there.
Once upon a time, there was gin lemon: now, get ready for lemon gin’s revolution. Two years later the release of Rio Negro - his first recipe as Master Distiller - Alexandre Mazza creates Brazil’s first ever Old Tom gin, Maniuara. Newborn at distilaria Amázzoni - twice honored at World Gin Awards as best Brazilian craft gin - Maniuara comes as a golden shaded nectar, with a lively lemon aroma resulting from double distillation, with a classic cold botanical infusion followed by a solid lemon skin and lemongrass soaking process, directly in the pot.
It’s lemongrass itself, so deeply Brazilian, that gives to Maniuara a daring personality and a pure energy twist, further freshened by the lowest alcohol content on the market - just 38% ABV - and the delicate floral bouquet. First taste is thrilling, for all senses; and the finish, peppery with a sweet and sour citrus note is a true call for a new sip. Though a breakthrough, Maniuara keeps untouched its care in handcraft, in raw materials quality, in sustainability and passion for the terroir from every Amázzoni gin springs: the forest. Our home.

Herbarium

Abiding by four centuries of gin tradition, while opening yourself to all the New World’s fragrances and temptations.

Amazzoni is not only the first ever premium gin to have its own dedicated distillery in Brazil, but it also brings together from this land five ingredients never explored before as botanical principles in a gin: Juniper berries of course, and then laurel, lemon, coriander, tangerine and pink pepper. Plus the first-time ingredients from the heart of the Amazonian forest: cocoa, Brazil nut, maxixe, victoria regia, and cipò cravo.

About their flavour, you’ll let us know. All those eleven ingredients are macerated in cereal alcohol and the out-coming infusion is then poured in the proportion calibrated by Captain Tato Giovannoni’s top secret recipe, in the majestic copper still, the first ever designed and made in Brazil, the proud beating heart of Amazzoni Distillery.

Tangerine
Citrus reticulata
Lemon
Citrus limonum
Aroeira
Schinus terebinthifolius
Cocoa
Theobroma cacao
Brazil Nut
Bertholletia excelsa
Bay Leaf
Laurus nobilis
Coriander
Coriandrum sativum
Maxixe
Cucumis anguria
Juniper
Juniperus sabina
Cipó-cravo
Tynanthus elegans

The Alchemists

We may even pretend not to believe in destiny but it’s curious that the initials of our family names form the word ‘gim’, and only here, (as in the rest of the world it is called gin, with an ‘N’) could our spirit be born. The first with Brazil as its home, but with a strong international accent and clearly inspired by the ‘Italian dolce vita’.

Arturo Isola

Four quarters Italian by birth, having lived there for his first thirty years, he emigrated to Brazil moved by true love, setting sail from Genoa, his hometown, like Christopher Colombo, Garibaldi and his close friend, Tato’s grandparents. An architect and a designer by training, a painter by passion, and a curious globetrotter, he never stops thinking up how to create what he would like to find wherever he is. In Rio de Janeiro he created the bar he wanted to go to, the ice-cream that was missing, and the beers that he wanted to be able to drink. Now it’s time for the gin and then, tonic water and ginger ale. As a starting point for Amazzoni, he planted a tangerine tree in Cachoeira Farm as his father always used to say: “We are what we grow in life” and also because the tree’s fruits will make a good infusion. “I’ve drunk a lot of gin in both the Old and New World” he usually says “but making one really tastes like heaven”.

Tato Giovannoni
An Argentinian and a Buenos Aires Boca Xeneixe, whose family hails from Lucca in Italy. He is widely recognized as one of the top mixologists in the world. His intuition was behind the “Prince of the Apostles” (the first Argentinian gin made from mate), as it was too with the tonic water ‘Pulpo blanco’ and the Giovannoni family vermouth. Before all this happened, he was a cinema student in L.A. and a bricklayer and gardener in Boston, art director, shower-singer and finally author of bestselling “El mar del Tato”, a book that counts among its readers the multi-starred chef Ferran Adrià. Nowadays, Giovannoni spends most of his time being the boss and factotum of Floreira Atlântico, twice voted the #1 cocktail bar in Latin America and three times nominee in planet Earth’s top fifty. He thinks of himself – with good reason – as a true Renaissance man, while La Naciòn considered him in 2014 as one of the most inspiring minds of Argentina.
Alexandre Mazza

Of the three the only Brazilian on board, he first appeared in Operário Futebol Clube of Ponta Grossa, in the Paranà region. Then, in San Paolo, while flatsharing with jazz musicians, he swapped the ball for a bass, a passion that later would drive him to found the Totem recording studios, a basic meeting point for the Brazilian musical elite in the 90s. As a bartender and sometimes the manager of carioca bohemian hangouts, at times he used to switch from counter to stage (in Oasis’ supporting bands, among others). He literally saw the light in Paris, beginning to study refraction and other visual effects, and soon becoming a successful international video artist. His works on light multiplication now feature in many important museums all over the world. He had the idea of making the Amazzoni bottle transparent. A stickler for detail, legend has it that when the first Amazzoni bottle came out of the furnace, he yelled “Why don’t you speak to me?”