Description

CHAWAR is a raw agave spirit from the Andes mountains. In the highlands of Ecuador, there is an ancestral tradition of harvesting the agave sap. For nearly a millennia, indigenous women have passed down the technique of hand-harvesting the raw sap from the mature plants (~12+ years) of the agave americana variety, growing in the high altitude volcanic soils of tropical Ecuador. Highland communities use the sap as medicine, food, and alcohol. Chawarmishki is a Quechua word which means “sweet raw”, referring to the sap. We work with Ecuador’s first all women’s indigenous harvesting co-op to source raw agave sap at 3100 meters. The sap is then naturally fermented and double distilled at our farm in Yaroqui City.