Avuá Amburana Cachaça

An intense, hand-crafted single-sourced Cachaça by Katia Espírito Santo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is made with hand-cut sugarcane that is ground with a waterwheel to extract the juice, which is fermented for less than 24 hours using airborne wild yeasts & distilled in an alembic copper pot still. The cachaça rests for up to 2 years in casks made from Amburana wood. It has an aromatic birth with notes of dark fruits & baking spices; a fruity & spicy life adds notes of black cherry, caraway, cardamom, anise, allspice, nutmeg & hay; that leads to a warm & earthy death with notes of crème brûlée, citrus zest, anise & wood. June / July 2020

Absolutely phenomenal stuff. Leagues beyond your basic cachaca. Warm, inviting nose with flavors of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, chocolate and subtle citrus like orange. Whats even better, is that this was a gift from a manager, and we all know free booze is all that much sweeter.

Cachaça tasting with some buddies. My first experience with this beautiful liquor. Tried to take notes of my impressions as I was sampling. Warm, fresh, semisweet, fruity (melon?), spicy and woody, mild finish.

One of the most unique spirits I’ve ever tasted. Intensely nutty and oily. Lower rating because it’s not my thing, but this may be a great cachaca and I wouldn’t be able to comment one way or the other.

Very interesting herbal and tropical fruit mineralities from caraway, tangerine, mango, guava. Tastes like something from the Amazon River.

This cachaça is a real gamechanger. Dare you to take your first sip without saying "whoa" out loud.