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Michoacán's sugarcane spirit: made like rum, protected under its own name.
Michoacán, Mexico, 19th century
Cane spirit has been distilled around Uruapan since the colonial sugar mills, and the name was in everyday use by the 1800s. Mexico granted charanda a denomination of origin in 2003, the same protection tequila and mezcal enjoy.
Sugarcane juice, piloncillo, or molasses from Michoacán's highlands is fermented and run through pot or column stills; some bottlings rest in oak. The name comes from a Purépecha word for the region's red soil.
Grassy cane and brown sugar with a mineral, faintly earthy edge. Unaged bottlings are bright and clean; aged ones pick up vanilla and toffee.
Did you know
It is made the way rum is, but the 2003 denomination ties the name to Michoacán, the way Cognac is fenced into its French communes.
Also known as: charanda