Avua Tapinhoa Cachaca

Avuá Tapinhoã is the most singular and historically loaded expression in the entire Avuá Native Wood Collection — a cachaça aged in a barrel with a story that goes back decades before the bottle itself existed. Tapinhoã wood is an extremely rare hardwood found only in certain regions of South America, and the barrel used to produce this cachaça was originally used by Master Distiller Katia Espírito Santo's father on the Fazenda da Quinta family farm decades ago — discovered, restored through a lengthy recommissioning process, and finally put to use aging the same single-estate sugarcane cachaça that has defined Avuá since 2013. While other spirit categories like whiskey and tequila typically work with the same handful of wood types, Brazil's access to the Amazon Rainforest — home to over 16,000 known tree species — means cachaça has an almost limitless selection of indigenous woods to explore. Tapinhoã is among the most unusual and surprising of them. Good Spirits News awarded it an A- rating, describing it as quite dry and slightly tannic with high, tight bitter flavonoids from the wood that spread into a peppery and somewhat minty wash on the back palate — a powerhouse of intensity that seems to grow with successive sips. The nose delivers grassy rhum agricole character with butterscotch and spearmint, while the palate brings toasted coconut, fresh honeycomb, caramel, pepper, cilantro, and sandalwood — finishing long with a numbing sensation unlike any other spirit. One reviewer called it almost mystical in flavor — nothing else like it. Buy Avuá Tapinhoã Cachaça online with fast shipping right to your door.