Chococard – Kutunsama, Arhuacos, Colombia, Dark 76%

About the bar

Chococard’s 76% dark bar from Colombia is packed full of notes of stone fruit and astringency. The bar has a lovely melt and a great length, with tasting notes of apricots, greengages, and soy sauce.

About the maker

Chococard was founded in 2011 by husband-and-wife duo Izabella Foki and Zoltán Koncos. The pair decided to enter into the world of chocolate for two simple reasons – Izabella needed a job, and both of them loved chocolate. Izabella had attended a handful of small chocolate-making workshops, and had learnt enough to temper chocolate herself. When Izabella and Zoltán first started out, the pair were using couverture chocolate as they believed that their chocolate was slave-free, and they were fair with farmers. After a few years, Izabella and Zoltán learned that most of this was marketing, and decided to dive headfirst into making their very own line of bean-to-bar chocolate bars, with Zoltán joining fulltime in 2017. The name ‘Chococard’ was inspired by their very first product – a decorated chocolate bar in a box which was specially designed to hold a postcard.

The beans

The beans for this bar are sourced from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and are farmed by the Arhuacos, an indigenous community living in the northern part of Sierra Nevada near the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Today, the community harvests and processes their cacao with the help and guidance of Original Beans.

Allergens*

May contain milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Organic cocoa beans 72%, organic cane sugar 24%, organic cocoa butter 4%

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