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Growing in a valley isolated from the world, only accessible by small fishing boats called “peñeros” authentic CHUAO from Venezuela is renowned as one the world’s best cacaos for one of the world’s best cacaos for over 400 years. Notes of dark cherries, plums and blackberries.
Made in a factory that handles dairy & nuts.
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Super limited, experimental small batch dark chocolate.
For the past few May’s, we’ve celebrated the arrival of warmer weather with bright, uplifting flavors that match our mood. We’re continuing that tradition this year with another tea themed First Nibs batch, which includes an ambrosial and lush collaboration with the South Asian women-owned One Stripe Chai and a swirly ode to our favorite scone.
Limited release – while stocks last!
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An alternative to milk chocolate made with coconut milk and coconut blossom sugar.
Depending on availability we typically use the cacao from Chililique (Piura) for the coconut bar.
May contain traces of dairy and nuts.
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Cacaosuyo’s Chuncho Cuzco bar is crafted from cacao from the area around Andean city of Cusco. The cocoa from this region is known as cacao chuncho, named after the jungle zone of Chunchada. They’re widely regarded as one of the top beans coming from Peru, with a fine aroma that is greatly superior to the hybrid varietals from the country.
Made from rare beans grown deep within the Peruvian jungle, this is a bar that impresses from the outset. This intense 70% cacao bar with a coarse texture.
Made with just two ingredients – cocoa beans and sugar – it’s a wonderful illustration of the range of flavours hidden within the cocoa bean.
This bar won a Bronze in the 2017 Peru round of the International Chocolate Awards.
May cotain traces of milk and nuts.
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Given the popularity of our slabs, we have decided to transform them into bars. Dark Chocolate with roasted hazelnuts. We hope you enjoy this nutty bar! Totally vegan too.
Plastic-free packaging as we care about the largest garden in the world – our oceans.May contain nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, soya, dairy and wheat.
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Cacaosuyo Rupa Rupa is made with a marvelous cacao that is delicate in flavor.
Velvety smooth, smoky, and luscious in character. Full, complex, but beautifully balanced without any bitter notes, a rare accomplishment.
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Forget everything you think about 100% bars. This pure cacao bar is creamy and bright, not bitter, with a subtle, tingling fruity sweetness.
Origin: Kokoa Kamili, Tanzania
Favor profile: Chocolatety, earthy, red fruits
Vegan, gluten and lactose free.
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This Qantu Chuncho 100% is a 100% bar made with cacao from the Ayacucho region of Peru. With no added sugar the bar provides a pure and more intense approach to this bean.
For their first collection, Maxime & Elfi of Qantu have focused on Peru. Inspired by Elfi’s heritage, they returned to the country where they had originally met. Starting off in Lima they visited Salon du Chocolat there in order to begin forging relationships with different producers. They then went on to visit a number of farmers and co-operatives to find their perfect beans.
For this particular bar, Qantu has worked with Asociacion de productores del VRAE. Though a relatively new producer, it has employed a specialist to help its farmers improve the agricultural techniques. Until recently the region where VRAE operates was victim to violence and the narcotics trade.
Chuncho is an ancient cacao varietal that is native to this particular part of Peru.The beans are especially small and therefore only need a very quick fermentation of about 3 days. This is done in wooden boxes after the cacao is dried in the sun. What they like in size, the beans make up for in flavour. Chuncho cacao is naturally mild with a multifaceted profile that makes it perfect for 100% bars
Crafting 100% chocolate is always difficult. On first we were amazed at the smoothness of the bar along with the flavours. We asked Qantu for more details on the process behind the bar:
“We do a medium roasting on this one to get similar notes to the chocolate they make in Cuzco for hot chocolate cups. In their case, they usually over-roast the beans, which we try to avoid. Acidity is very low in the Chuncho, no need to put a lot of heat during conching. Since it’s a 100%, there is more fat in it because there is no sugar, so chocolate is very liquid, we have hard time on the manual tempering/molding step. An automatic tempering machine would help a lot for this one, that will be our next purchase I think…”
While no sugar might make you think this bar would be bitter the chocolate is wonderfully mild. The smooth bar has gentle and creamy melt that slowly releases flavour. Plenty of fruit, apricot jam and mounds of hazelnuts all come through. The chocolate also reminded us slightly of a malted biscuit (but with far more depth).
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A super dark chocolate with an easy, ice cream-like melt and a natural, juicy sweetness from strawberries.
Vegan, gluten and lactose free. No added sugar!
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“I that from Tabascao come, with heritage of Mayan blood, where ground cacao gave a new meaning to water.” (Carlos Pellicer). This dark spicy chocolate is made in an authentic Mexican traditional style, using the ancient criollo hybrid cacao of Tabasqueño.
Made in a factory that handles dairy and nuts.
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This bar is not for everybody. But it is for folks like you and me. We relish the opportunity to taste the unadulterated purity of 100 percent cacao chocolate. With no sweet embellishment, the seed and the maker can both show their true colors.
This is a bar of great intent: a blend of cacao origins our chocolate makers individually roast and refine, before blending them to taste in the conche. Though
no sugar is added, the bright acidity manifests as natural sweetness. This blend surprises tasters with its harmonious balance of flavors.Just one square of this potent chocolate captures the intensity of a freshly pulled espresso shot. Bold and intensely dark cocoa flavors are balanced with complex and wild fruit flavors of grape and lime.
Dairy-free and suitable for vegans.
May contain traces of: milk, peanuts, eggs, corn, tree nuts, wheat and soy.
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Dangerously tasty!
Dark chocolate made with Forastero cocoa beans from Congo – Virunga National Park, where the last mountain gorillas live. The cocoa provides the inhabitants with extra income.
- 100% Gluten free
- Produced on solar energy
- 100% Organic chocolate
- Zero waste & plastic-free
The Virunga region lies at the crossroads of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The area is threatened by ongoing deforestation due to illegal logging and encroaching small-scale agriculture.
Planting cocoa restores land and prevents deforestation. This keeps the Virunga National Park intact and protects the last habitat of the mountain gorillas.
In Africa, Forastero cocoa trees are predominant; the taste of the beans is powerful, you taste a pure, uncomplicated chocolate.