MOUEEL
PT ⌄
frutade uva · vinosa · tânica · floral · de casca amarga

Jabuticaba

Nasce direto no tronco, em cachos pretos. Dura três dias depois de colhida — quem já comeu uma sabe correr pro pé.

on its own
3.0sour
4.0sweet
0.0savoury
2.0bitter
0.0umami
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4 of these 16 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

16 pairings for Jabuticaba.

Açúcar

classic

The skin is tannic and the flesh is fleeting; the jelly is how Brazil keeps it.

Fat softens the skin tannin and lets the muscat note in the flesh come forward.

Limão

common

The pulp is sweeter than it is sour; acid is what makes the perfume readable.

Two tannins that agree; the fruit acid stops the cocoa from drying the mouth out.

Uva

uncommon

Same muscat volatiles under different skins. Side by side the resemblance is total.

Lactic chalk under a tannic sweet skin; it works exactly as a quince paste does.

Vinho tinto

uncommon

Winey and tannic already; a reduction of both is indistinguishable from a wine sauce.

Pato

rare

Tannic dark fruit against rendered fat; Brazil does with this what France does with cherry.

Vodka

rare

A neutral solvent pulls the tannin out of the skins where rum would bury it.

Pisco

rare

Muscat spirit and muscat fruit; the two share the same floral top note exactly.

Bitter dark skins cooked down to jelly, spooned onto flat white curd. Minas grows both of them.

Piperine on tannic sweet skins turns a jelly into something you would serve with meat.

Café

wild

Roast bitterness and skin tannin; the fruit acid reads as the coffee acidity itself.

Tart black skin against a hard cure. It does the job of a reduced red without the cellar.

Fubá

wild

Winey Minas fruit against a Minas corn cake. The black skin cuts the sand off the crumb.