HOT ! Other Products ｜Germana Heritage Cachaca

Heritage is the oldest cachaça Germana makes and the crown of the range — a decade of aging from a family that has distilled by hand on Fazenda Vista Alegre in Minas Gerais since 1912. It starts exactly where every Germana does: sugarcane grown on 300 hectares without chemical additives, hand-cut with machetes at peak ripeness, fermented the 500-year-old way with yellow corn meal and wild native yeasts over two to three weeks, then distilled in copper pot stills over open flame with only the heart kept. Then it waits. Heritage spends eight years in oak before a final two years in Brazilian bálsamo, the native hardwood that lends a peppery, herbaceous bitterness and depth no European cask can — ten years in total, an extraordinary commitment for a category where most bottles are unaged. Bottled at 40% ABV. What emerges is cachaça with the poise of a fine aged brandy: one longtime RumRatings taster found tobacco, melon, cream, and a dash of red pepper, with just a little vegetality and remarkably little heavy wood — "a perfectly clean-tasting, smooth glass of perfection," easy to drink straight and almost too good to mix, even with lime and sugar. Expect cane sweetness folded into vanilla, dried fruit, spice, and soft oak, finishing long and gently bitter from the bálsamo. This is not a caipirinha cachaça. Pour it neat, after dinner, and treat it like the ten-year-old spirit it is.
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Brand:Chips LiquorSKU:C0010293LTags:Pac Edge, Spirits