50g (1.76 oz)
75.5% Cacao beans, organic cane sugar
Heavy rains and a moderate conch give rise to a fruit-forward bar.
Blackberry marmalade, nutty caramel, tinge of grapefruit
Blackberry
Caramel
Grapefruit
Honey
Nose: Blackberry marmalade with a floral touch.
Palate: Burst of berries, floral honey, nutty caramel.
Finish: Berries, almonds, tinge of grapefruit.
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The 2021 Growing Season
On the tails of one of the strangest years ever—for the world and for To’ak’s cacao harvest—the 2021 growing season was relatively normal...until the final months. The latter half of the rainy season, which coincides with ripening and harvest time, was the wettest on record for us. Piedra de Plata received 612 mm (24 inches) of precipitation from March through May, compared to the average amount of 380 mm (15 inches) for those three months.
As in the wine industry, excess rain during ripening and harvest can lead to rot and other problems. To mitigate this threat, farmers harvested early and often. Ultimately, it proved to be a plentiful crop.
For this harvest, we chose a conching time of 18 hours, which is longer than in previous years. Conching is the process of mechanically churning the chocolate— usually in liquid form, at a temperature above the melting point—for hours or sometimes even days.
In general, this has the effect of aerating the chocolate and releasing volatile acids. In this edition, it corralled the acidity and coaxed it in the direction of blackberries and cranberries. This is a fruit-forward bar of chocolate, with floral honey and nutty caramel on the midpalate, punctuated with a tinge of grapefruit on the finish.
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We are confident you’ll love our chocolate as much as we do. Please contact us if, for any reason, you’re not completely satisfied.
Our guarantee covers any reasonable dissatisfaction with the product and damage or loss in transit. The guarantee is valid for 30 days from the date of purchase, providing you have proof of purchase and a photo of any reported damage.
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We aim to ship your chocolate with the utmost care, ensuring it arrives quickly and in perfect condition.
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We’re using cacao trees to help restore forest on degraded agricultural land. It’s one element of a holistic regenerative agroforestry project that combines cacao trees with a diversity of tall native shade trees, fruit trees, and other food crops like bananas and plantains.
We’re doing this in partnership with TMA (Third Millennium Alliance), a nonprofit rainforest conservation organization that has been protecting and restoring forests in Ecuador since 2007.
For the full story, please read our blog article: Using Cacao to Reverse Deforestation.
We pay a farmgate price that is 3-8x the standard market price for “wet cacao" — well above the fair trade premium. To the best of our knowledge, these are the highest cacao prices on the continent.
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