Novo Fogo Colibri Cachaca

Colibri is the hummingbird of Novo Fogo's Two-Wood Series — and its second wood is castanheira, the Brazil nut tree. 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. Colibri is aged one year in repurposed American oak, then finished in casks of castanheira — the Brazil nut tree, a rainforest giant now protected — and bottled at around 42% ABV, non-chill filtered, USDA organic. Castanheira lends a character no other wood does: expect a nose of the Silver's grassy cane and banana with a nutty, toasted, faintly sweet note from the Brazil-nut wood, opening into a smooth, rounded palate where cane sweetness meets a creamy, nutty, lightly spiced finish that's gentler than the zebrawood Tanager. Rum Ratings' drinkers place it between Tanager and Graciosa in the series. Honest note: an unusual, wood-forward cachaça for the curious — for a Caipirinha, a cachaça Old Fashioned, or neat to taste a tree you've eaten the nuts of. A bird, a tree, a bottle.

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