Our “Tanager” expression mixes the Brazilian South’s two favorite woods. We age this cachaça in barrels of oak and araribá (zebrawood), a traditional Southern wood that adds natural red color and a distinctive mountain earthiness. We sourced the wood from our only two zebrawood barrels from an abandoned house located on a friend’s property. Tanager is spicy, oily, and funky and makes a powerful base for an exotic Sazerac cocktail.
Fermentation: 18 hours with wild yeast
Distillation: copper pot still
Barrels: repurposed oak + zebrawood
Nose: tropical fruit
Palate: grass and holiday spices
Finish: cinnamon bark
Suggested cocktail: Sazerac
TANGERAC
2 oz Novo Fogo Tanager Cachaça
2 dashes of Scrappy’s Orleans bitters
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
0.25 oz simple syrup
Stir with ice and strain into an Absinthe-rinsed glass. Zest lemon on the size of the glass and discard the peel.
Cachaça is Brazil’s national distilled spirit made from freshly-pressed sugarcane juice. Cachaça is 500 years old; it is an older spirit and larger category than rum. Since it’s distilled from a fresh plant, terroir matters. The terroir of the coastal Atlantic Rainforest makes Novo Fogo cachaça unique.
