Sodade - Atlantîco 4 ans, "Escale antillaise" - Grogue du Cap Vert

Authentic Cape Verdean grogue, pure cane juice. 100% red bourbon cane, grown on terraces and harvested by hand. Fermented for 15 days using the wild yeasts that Manuel Monteiro (the SODADE producer) knows so well. Distillation with bagasse, in a Cape Verdean pot still with a cut to keep only the heart of the toast.

Spending 42 months in Madeira ex-wine casks and a 6-month finish in Martinique ex-agricultural rum casks gives it subtle aromas of hazelnut wood and fruit. Casked in 2018 by Manuel Monteiro for Jonathan Chauve. Alcohol content: 45%. Bottle 100% recycled PCR (Post Consumer Recycled), their colour can vary from one bottle to another. 

Acidity: 3/10 - Fruity: 7/10 - Sweet: 4/10 - Woody: 8/10

Behind Sodade is Jonathan. Passionate about sugar cane spirits, introduced to rum by his family from Martinique, he has been going to the Cha de Pedra valley in Cape Verde for several years. Over the years, he met the locals, established ties with them, and ended up harvesting sugar cane. The following year the idea emerges: to make known the "Grogue" of Cha de Pedra to the French. The taste is close to some Brazilian cachaças. The distilleries remain on a family scale. The sugar cane is picked up by hand. The entire manufacturing process is done without the use of chemicals or sugar additions.

The project lies in the will to create a virtuous product, remunerative for the producers of the valley in order to make them masters of their destiny.