Chococard – La Dalia, Cacao Bisiesto, Nicaragua, Dark 72%

About the bar

This 72% dark chocolate bar from Chococard has a wondrously smooth melt. We were immediately hit with savoury flavours including notes of pepper, thyme, and rosemary, with a creaminess at the end.

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 Cacao Bisiesto – ‘bisiesto’ in Spanish means ‘leap year’, which is fitting as Cacao Bisiesto was founded on February 29th, 2012. The farm was founded by José Enrique Herrera and Gifford Laube, who have years of experience in agrnomy, ecotourism, coffee, and cacao. The pair purchase the beans from local cacao growers for a higher than world-market prices for their cacao.

Allergens*

May contain milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Cocoa beans 68%, organic cane sugar 28%, organic cocoa butter 4%

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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