Charanda Uruapan Single Blended Blanco Rum

Charanda is Mexico's cane spirit — a protected denomination of origin like Martinique agricole or Brazilian cachaça, made only in the highlands of Michoacán around Uruapan, and named for the Cerro de la Charanda, the hill of red-colored soil in the Purépecha language where the region's first distillery was built. Uruapan is the reference brand, made by the Pacheco family, and this blue-bottle Blanco is the one that introduced America to the category. It's a single blended rum: 50% estate-grown cane juice, distilled on a copper pot still, and 50% molasses, distilled on a modified French-style column, from Saccharum officinarum cane grown at 4,180 feet in red volcanic soil, rested in steel and bottled unaged at 46% ABV. Rum Ratings' drinkers call it a very good agricole-esque rum — fresh sugarcane, lime, minerals, and papaya on the nose, then minerals, cane, cactus juice, and a white-pepper finish — and note charanda isn't even considered rum by the people who make it. The Fat Rum Pirate notes it retails around $25 to $30 and has drawn real attention in the drinks world. Expect brine, grass, pepper, and a cachaça-like green edge with the molasses half rounding the body. Honest note: it's a grassy, mineral cane spirit, not a neutral white rum. For a Daiquiri, a Ti' Punch, a Mexican Mojito, or a tiki drink that wants a new voice, it's Michoacán in a bottle.

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