Novo Fogo Silver Cachaça

At roughly the same price as Avua, I would gladly choose this bottle. Avua may be a touch better in cocktails, but if you plan to drink your cachaca neat, this is the superior bottle. I get lime peel, banana and the grassy notes on the nose. The initial sips are very smooth and have a minerality to them, with notes of pineapple and white pepper. The finish has decent length, very little burn and the sweetness does come thru in the end, but it's not overpowering. Novo Fogo silver, at this point, is my favorite unaged cachaca. It can play well with other ingredients in a cocktail and stands up well to other unaged spirits neat. I think it is well worth the price.

I only use cachaca to make caipirinhas, and I do not have a lot of cachacas available to me. The funky experience it provides is unlike any of there spirit. Similar to a smokey scotch, you'll probably love it or hate it. I really enjoy the Novo Fogo brand. The blanco is so funky, it is almost off-putting at first. But mix with lime and sugar, makes a cocktail unlike any other. I can only compare this to Leblon cachaca. The Leblon is much more grassy, while the Novo Fogo is more ripe fruit forward. I have noticed it is harder to find Novo Fogo in my area, and their other expressions are going up in price. For now, the blanco is ~$30 (Leblon is ~$25).

Nice mid-tier packaging. Really like the canvas neck wrap and pear/butternut squash bottle. Honestly, just bright, fresh, and delicious. Clean, thick powdered sugar simple syrup. Snappy green bean. Bell pepper sweetness. Salt. Fresh ginger. Vegetal minerals and tang, with a solid saccharine spice. Lovely silver cachaca, would happily have again. Unmistakably cachaca and that’s a good thing.

A great starter cachaça for those interested in truly exploring this exotic spirit. Clean fruity and earthy notes with a long sweet sugar cane and grassy finish. Cachaça may not be everyone’s cup of tea due to the funky earthy flavors, but it is very worth exploring with this brand.

Smooth and light, slightly oily with tropical fruit punch flavours of pineapple, banana and mango, Amanda’s notes say it well. Gentle spice rounds it out and it finishes a bit dry. A decent replacement for your standard white rum. $44 in Ontario.

Smells of over ripe bananas and it’s quite stinky in my opinion. I do however enjoy the taste. It tastes like bananas, cooked sugar, tropical fruit.