Uruapan Charanda Cana Mexicana Blanco Single Agricola Rum (75cl, 46%)

A single-agricola Charanda from Mexico, pressed from one sugarcane variety, Cana Mexicana, and bottled unaged at 46% ABV in a 750ml bottle. Charanda carries a Denominación de Origen and can be made only in the highlands of Michoacán, where the Pacheco family has distilled at Casa Tarasco in Uruapan for over a century. The Single Agricola line uses cane juice only, with Saccharum officinarum grown above 4,000 feet in Michoacán's red volcanic soil, pressed, fermented and double-distilled on a copper pot still, then rested in steel. The Cana Mexicana edition isolates one cane variety's voice, with a grassy, mineral, almost mezcal-like character. The nose brings fresh-cut grass and green cane juice, lime, salt, chalky minerals and white pepper, with tropical-fruit ferment notes of pineapple and tart cherry, and a long, dry, peppery finish.