Novo Fogo Graciosa Cachaca

Graciosa is named for the Graciosa road — the old cobbled route through the Atlantic rainforest above Novo Fogo's distillery — and its second wood is a tree from that forest. Novo Fogo — "new fire" — was founded in 2004 in Morretes, in the coastal Atlantic rainforest of Paraná state in southern Brazil, and owns its own distillery: organic estate sugarcane, hand-cut with a machete and pressed within hours, fermented into a low-strength cane wine, and pot-distilled in small batches. The Two-Wood Series — Tanager, Graciosa, and Colibri — exists because the Atlantic Forest has lost 88% of its 375 million acres, and Novo Fogo runs a reforestation project for the threatened native trees whose wood traditionally ages cachaça; each bottle funds it. Graciosa is aged one year in repurposed American oak, then finished in casks of a native Brazilian hardwood — check your label for the species and ABV — non-chill filtered, USDA organic. Native Brazilian woods lend cachaça a character oak never can: expect a nose of the Silver's grassy cane and banana with a spiced, faintly herbal, tea-like note from the finishing wood, opening into a bright, vegetal palate where cane sweetness meets a dry, aromatic, gently tannic finish. Honest note: this is the rarest of the Two-Wood Series and Rum Ratings has only a handful of reviews — an unusual, wood-forward cachaça for the curious collector. For a Caipirinha that tastes like the forest, a Batida, or neat. A road, a tree, a bottle.

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