Uruapan Charanda Cana Cristalina Blanco Single Agricola Rum
Uruapan Charanda Cana Cristalina Blanco Single Agricola Rum bottles one sugarcane variety — Cana Cristalina — as a single-agricola Charanda: 100% fresh cane juice from Michoacán's volcanic highlands, double-distilled on a copper pot still, rested in steel, and bottled unaged at 46% ABV (92 proof) in a 750mL bottle. It is Charanda's answer to rhum agricole, from the Pacheco family's Casa Tarasco distillery in Uruapan. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor, San Diego, CA.
- Proof / ABV: 92 proof (46% ABV)
- Size: 750mL
- Spirit: Charanda — Denominación de Origen, Michoacán, Mexico
- Cane: 100% single-variety cane juice (Cana Cristalina)
- Distillery: Casa Tarasco, Uruapan — Pacheco family, est. 1907
Cana Cristalina: The Clear-Cut Agricola
Charanda isn't considered rum by the people who make it — it's its own protected category, distilled for over a century in the red-soil highlands around Uruapan. The Single Agricola editions strip the spirit to its essence: one cane variety, pressed in a water-powered mill, fermented, and double-distilled on copper, never touching oak. The Cristalina edition is the connoisseur's pour of the trilogy — a mineral, grassy, intensely savory cane spirit with the wild funk that fans of clairin and Paranubes chase. Browse the Uruapan collection, explore more rum, and shop agricole-style spirits at Del Mesa.
Tasting Notes
Salted lime, cut grass, and minerals on the nose with tart tropical fruit; the palate is robust and complex — green cane, white pepper, chalk, and a corn-syrup sweetness — finishing long, dry, and peppery with fresh herbs. A spirit-geek's bottle, not a gentle mixer.
How to Enjoy
Neat in a copita for the full savory-mineral experience, or in a Ti' Punch where the cane character does the talking. Mix it into tiki builds when you want grass and funk instead of molasses weight.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Charanda the same as rum?
Legally and culturally, no — Charanda is a separate Denominación de Origen that can only be made in Michoacán's highlands. It shares rum's sugarcane base, which is why it shelves with rum, but its identity is distinctly Mexican.
Why three cane varieties?
Uruapan bottles Mexicana, Cristalina, and Criolla cane separately — the same idea as single-variety wine or single-estate coffee: taste how the raw material shapes the spirit.
Is this sweetened or aged?
Neither. It is unaged (rested in steel only) and unadulterated — no sugar, no color, no oak.
Order Uruapan Charanda Cana Cristalina Blanco online from Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA — one cane, one still, zero compromise.