50g (1.76 oz)
75% Cacao beans, cane sugar
A gentle dark chocolate with notes of orange blossoms.
Mandarine, orange blossoms, nuts, coffee
Mandarine
Orange Blossoms
Nuts
Coffee
Nose: Berries & orange blossoms.
Palate: Roasted almonds, mandarine, cranberry, and coffee.
Finish: Berries, almonds, and flowers.
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Cacao's Story
The 2019 Growing Season
The weather in Piedra de Plata was generous and dependable throughout the 2019 growing season. In fact, it was shockingly consistent with the annual average weather over the six-year period that we’ve been tracking climate in Piedra de Plata. Ironically, this is what makes this year extraordinary.
Every other harvest year has had at least a few striking anomalies. The 2019 growing season was smooth and predictable throughout the 12-month period that preceded the harvest. Precipitation and sunlight tracked the monthly averages to a degree that we had never seen before.
In other words, the dry season was dry, the rainy season was rainy but well-endowed with plenty of sunlight, and the post-veraison phase was well-balanced. At harvest time, the cacao fruit was healthy and the flavor was well-balanced. We also used an especially soft touch during roasting and conching; we kept temperatures to a minimum.
The result is a relatively gentle dark chocolate with lovely notes of mandarine, orange blossoms, nuts, and coffee. Oh 2019, what a smooth and copacetic year you were! Little did we know what was in store for the world in 2020.
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.
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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.