cachaca is damn good.
side note on voda (although, k, I am sure you're much more of a connaisseur than myself), some friends and I found that if you dedicate a brita filter to vodka, you can filter out a bunch of the impurities in cheap vodka. monarch+brita filter= ketel 1
I am one of those folks who doesn't much like vermouth so i'm down with the drier martinis (gin, not vodka).