Chocolatemakers – Awajún, Peru, Dark Milk 52%

About the bar

This is a powerful 52% dark milk chocolate bar made from Peruvian Criollo beans. Strong tastes of cocoa are lifted with a subtle hint of red fruit which gives way to a delightfully nutty aftertaste. This is one you’re sure to remember.

About the maker

It was quite simply a love of great chocolate that propelled Dutch founders Rodney and Enver to begin to create bean-to-bar chocolate in Amsterdam in 2011.Together they search the world for fine cocoa, dealing directly with cocoa farmers to ensure they get a fair deal – and you get the best possible quality! Indeed, Rodney and Enver are as passionate about ethics and sustainability as they are about the chocolate itself. They use only organic ingredients, and work directly to improve the environment, helping with a mountain gorilla conservation project in Congo and transporting the beans for their Tres Hombres bar from the Dominican Republic on the beautiful sailing cargo ship of the same name.

The beans

The flavour profile of this chocolate bar transports you to the lush canopies of the Amazonian rainforest in north-east Peru, where Awajún indigenous populations carefully cultivate the organic Criollo cacao from which this bar was crafted. Here, we really are talking about cacao with a conscience; this chocolate contributes to the conservation of the Amazon, with the fair prices paid to the Awajún for the cacao meaning that they are able to earn a decent livelihood without resorting to deforestation by cutting wood for agriculture and livestock farming. This directly promotes development of sustainable cultivation of cocoa.

Allergens*

May contain nuts

Ingredients

Cocoa mass, cane sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, emulsifier (rapeseed lecithin). cocoa: 63% minimum. organic farming. may contain traces of nuts

*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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