The Ypióca brand of Cachaça
The Brazilian cachaça brand Ypióca, until recently, was the oldest family-owned company in Brazil and it was both the first to bottle cachaça in the country and the first to sell the drink outside of Brazil. The company was founded in Ceará 167 years ago by a Portuguese immigrant with the last name of Telles de Menezes, who had only arrived in the country two years prior. While he died without seeing his company succeed, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have made Ypióca a household name.
