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Avua Amburana Cachaca rum

Avua Amburana Cachaca

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Brazil | Cachaca | 40% ABV

6.8/10
19 ratings
Tasty, but not quite great
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19 Avua Amburana Cachaca Ratings

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steveinny 🇺🇸 | 36 ratings
Posted over 3 years ago

The wood certainly has a great effect on the flavor. Cinnamon, spicy and great as a sipper. Recommended.

Falcon91Wolvrn03 (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 563 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

This is a very good cachaça (though I'm not a huge cachaça fan). It's like an agricole with a unique and interesting scent/flavor added in. I'm guessing that's the amburana aging, though I've never smelled amburana wood before. It's truly unique and therefore very difficult to describe, but it makes this a fun rum to try!

This is definitely the best Avua Cachaça I've ever tried!

Jimmy Cliff (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 495 ratings
Posted almost 3 years ago

My tasting continued at Saks in New York, wonderful new bar on the 9th floor to get your happy place when your wife is shopping. Great selection including this unusual Cahaca with an Amburana finish for 2 years. Taste and scent of bananas foster with a slightly woody finish, reminded me a bit of Mezcal. Very smooth and worth trying.

Paul B 🇺🇸 | 472 ratings
Posted over 5 years ago

After reading all of the reviews for all of these artisan cachacas, I decided to go back to that liquor store and pick up their Amburana. Lucky for me, it was only $10 more than the Prata that I already have at home. They had the Tapinhoa, but it was almost twice the price of this $40 bottle.

Both the Amburana and Tapinhoa are Brazilian hardwoods that are endangered due to loss of habitat. Their website says that these hardwood casks were "commissioned". I don't know if that means using casks that have been around before these woods were declared endangered or whether it means environmental mitigation from replanting. At any rate, I was hesitant to buy something aged in endangered hardwood, but I figured that if I wanted to try authentic Brazilian, then this was my chance.

So what is the verdict in a side by side taste between the Prata and this Amburana? The Prata is at 84 proof and this one is at 80 proof. The Prata is crystal clear and this one is pale yellow. The aromas of both are hard to tell apart. The Amburana smooths out much of the hogo funk and also has less of a burn at the end. Is the Amburana worth the extra $10 plus being very hard to find? I think so. On an after note, the strong smell of cinnamon and exotic tropical hardwood came from my empty glass the next morning. Maybe the other flavors obliterate these more exotic flavors while drinking it. I did buy another bottle of this one when my first one ran out.

Since this is my top rated cachaca from Avua, don't even dare to think of using it for caipirinhas. This is a fine neat sipper only!!!! The oak cask from Avua is right behind it in my overall rankings. Both are neat sippers only!

Michael Huff 🇺🇸 | 100 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

Avuá(av-wah) Cachaça is a darn good cachaça. This is made even better and more unique in that it has been aged in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amburana wood. It tastes of cinnamon and "je ne sais quoi". It's nose is pleasantly spicy and almost tangy.

JarkkoKoo (PREMIUM) 🇫🇮 | 30 ratings
Posted 3 days ago

Visually every detail in this bottle is great! This smells like apple & cinnamon and maybe peach and banana all together. It tastes what it snells like with a bit of alcohol burn. Easy to sip neat!

revsteph 🇺🇸 | 368 ratings
Posted 11 months ago

Tasted at Laka Lono June 26, 2022
Finished the bottle for them :)
This is a very true to cachaca form, with a little sweet thrown in.

Cool Breeze (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 555 ratings
Posted over 1 year ago

Tasted at Laka Lono on 4/4/21. Has a spicy aroma of sandalwood. Vanilla and mildly sweet. Soft and smooth finish. This is delightful and my pick of the Avua offerings.

beeporama (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 90 ratings
Posted 2 years ago

I have not developed a complex palate for Cachaça; it is still clairin's less funky cousin to my tongue. But of the dozen or so I've tried, this is probably the best one for straight drinking, sufficiently complex from aging but still essentially the same drink as its unaged peers. Vegetal and oily with a hint of cinammon and amber.

Mascarum 🇺🇸 | 22 ratings
Posted over 2 years ago

It’s aged. But that’s all I can say. I love the cocktail but this is not one I’d spend much time on.




Brand Details

Name: Amburana Cachaca
ABV: 40%
Type: Avua
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led Rum: No