Avua Prata Cachaca

Theres not much to say! I don't had a better choice for Caipirinha since I started experimenting with them. Complex subtle vanilla notes and some distinct floral and fruit notes.
Not available for a reasonable tarif in these corona days tough. So sad.

I went looking for this one three months ago and they were all gone from one merchant's shelf. Well, I stumbled across this one today for $30 and gladly bought it. The aroma and taste are of artisan vegetal cachaca with no unpleasant aftertaste that is found in industrial cachacas. I understand that sugar cane juice begins to spoil in only about two hours, so the trick to making artisan cachacas or rhum agricoles is to distill the juice ASAP. Since I am not really a fan of cachacas, I can only give a maximum rating of 7. This one is also good enough to sip neat. I may try some of the others in their product line.

If you want to start appreciating cachacas, I highly recommend starting with this brand. I find myself craving another glass every few hours. It is just that good. If you start off with a wrong brand of cachacas, you may never want to go near them again. This one is too good to be disguised with limes in a caipirinha. By the way, that national drink of Brazil was invented to disguise the awful taste of industrial cachacas made for peasants.

Update December 29, 2019: While watching a major football game, I decided to compare Caribbean Daiquiris to Brazilian Caipirinhas, since both have similar ingredients except for the rum. Well, guess what? The daiquiri wins hand down against the caipirinha!!! I guess this means no more cachaca for me (except for the neat sipping Avua Amburana).

Very grassy and vegetal. Smells quite a bit like sparkling apple cider, though certainly harder and not add sweet. Packs more of a pinch than its 84 proof might lead you to expect.
Fairly complex, and I wager this would make a killer caipirinha. Recommended!

Delicious and clean, with just enough spice to keep it interesting. Not too much burn. A really really good Cachaça

Like the oak-aged offering, this cachaca with "just there". It was good enough to have nothing negative to say, but not good enough to find anything positive either. To me, a cachaca needs to have real character.