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frutaresinosa · de pino · agria · floral · verde

Pitanga

Una baya roja acanalada que sabe vagamente a trementina, y ahí está el gusto. La cereza de Surinam brasileña.

on its own
4.0sour
2.0sweet
0.0savoury
2.0bitter
0.0umami
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3 of these 13 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

13 pairings for Pitanga.

Azúcar

classic

The resin note needs sweetness or it reads as a fault rather than a flavour.

Limón

common

Sharpening a resinous acid pushes it toward citrus and away from pine cleaner.

Crema

common

Dairy fat traps the terpenes; the ice cream tastes of the fruit and not the tree.

Ron

common

Molasses sugar under resin; the two meet somewhere near a very old cocktail bitters.

Coco

common

Lactone fat rounds the pine edge and keeps the acid from cutting straight through.

Enebro

uncommon

Two resins from opposite hemispheres; together they stop sounding like an accident.

Ginebra

uncommon

The botanicals were already halfway there. The fruit is a native replacement for the peel.

Romero

uncommon

Pinene on pinene; the herb makes the fruit read as savoury within one bite.

Pato

rare

Resinous tart fruit against rendered fat; it does the job orange does, but green.

Lactic chalk under resin and acid; the jam belongs on a board, not a pudding.

Cocoa handles resin better than anything; the bar tastes like it was aged in wood.

Oily fish and pine acid; a Brazilian answer to gooseberry with mackerel.

Resinous red cherry over bland wet curd. The fruit is too strange to sit beside anything louder.