Avua Cachaca Tapinhoa 750 ml

Avua Cachaca Tapinhoa is aged in barrels made from tapinhoa, a native Brazilian hardwood, rather than the oak most aged spirits use, which is the entire point of this expression within Avua's range. Made from organic sugarcane grown in Minas Gerais and distilled in copper alembic stills, it rests in tapinhoa wood for about a year, a wood that imparts a different, more tropical spice character than oak typically does. Expect tropical fruit and warm spice on the nose, with caramel, wood spice, and a rounded sweetness on the palate, distinct from an oak-aged rum or whiskey. It's part of Avua's broader project of showing how different native Brazilian woods change cachaca's character. This bottle suits drinkers who've tried standard aged cachaca and want to taste what a genuinely different wood does to the spirit.

How to drink Avua Tapinhoa

Sip it neat to taste the tapinhoa wood's distinct spice against the sugarcane base, or build a Caipirinha with it to see how the aging changes the classic drink. Neat is the better way to actually notice the wood.

Rum80 proof · tapinhoa wood (native Brazilian hardwood) · Minas Gerais, Brazil