Review: Novo Fogo Tanager Cachaca
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ovo Fogo Tanager is one of three varieties of cachaça in Novo Fogo’s Two-Wood Series. The other two are Novo Fogo Graciosa, and Novo Fogo Colibri. Wood is very important in the production of cachaça and the Atlantic Forest has lost 88% of its original size of 375 million acres due to deforestation. Novo Fogo has a reforestation project aimed at reversing the journey towards extinction of several threatened native Brazilian tree species. Tanager was the first two-wood cachaça broadly available in the USA. Novo Fogo crafts their cachaça at a distillery in the heart of Brazil’s coastal rainforest, Floresta Atlantica from organic sugar cane hand cut with a machete and pressed within hours. Like Novo Fogo Chameleon it is aged for one year in repurposed oak barrels. Tanager is finished in casks of Arariba, (Brazilian Zebrawood), non chill filtered, and bottled at 84 proof. Read more 