Avua Jequitiba Rosa Cachaca

Avua Jequitiba Rosa Cachaca is a 40% ABV, 750mL Brazilian cachaça — aged for 18 months in native Jequitibá Rosa wood — available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor, San Diego, CA.

Avuá is one of Brazil's few woman-led distilleries: third-generation distiller Katia Espírito Santo grows the sugarcane on her family's hillside farm in Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, and distills fresh-pressed cane juice the traditional way. The Jequitibá Rosa expression is her project to unlock Brazil's native woods one by one — after the unaged Prata and the Amburana release came this: 18 months resting in casks of Jequitibá Rosa, one of the largest and most storied trees in the Brazilian forest. Wood that rare doesn't just color the spirit — it rounds it, softening the cane-juice brightness into something mellow, toffee-rich, and quietly complex.

Tasting notes (trade consensus): a mellow, soft entry of cane sugar and tropical fruit; a rounded palate of toffee, warm baking spice, and gentle wood with a delicate floral lift from the Jequitibá Rosa; a smooth, warming finish of sweet spice and soft oak.

Why buy: A cachaça unlike any on your shelf — aged in a wood no whiskey or rum ever touches. Sip it neat to taste what native Brazilian hardwood does to cane spirit. Explore more Avua and browse more rum at Del Mesa Liquor.

FAQ — people also ask:

Q: What is the ABV of Avua Jequitiba Rosa?
A: 40% ABV in a 750mL bottle — aged 18 months in native Jequitibá Rosa wood.

Q: What is Jequitibá Rosa?
A: A native Brazilian hardwood (Cariniana legalis), one of the country's largest trees — Avuá ages cachaça in a rotating series of indigenous woods.

Q: Is cachaça the same as rum?
A: They're cousins — cachaça is distilled from fresh sugarcane juice (not molasses) and is Brazil's national spirit, home of the Caipirinha. Available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.