Chocolate Tree – Bahia, Brazil, Dark 70%

About the bar

This dark bar has a lovely length, with notes of coffee. The makers suggest you may taste fruit and nuts, and we tasted a hint of graphite and tangy sherbet. A  beautifully balanced bar.

About the maker

Founders of Chocolate Tree, Alastair and Friederike Gower, started their chocolate adventure in 2005 by touring music festivals and selling their chocolates from a hand built solar powered geodesic dome tent. However, working with organic couvertures wasn’t enough for them. Alastair and Friederike – being the adventurous types – decided to start making their own chocolate from bean to bar in 2012. This was a time when the craft chocolate movement was just getting started in the UK. Chocolate Tree also run its chocolaterie in Edinburgh, which offers a comfortable, relaxing environment for customers to enjoy a chocolate-rich menu. Alastair and Friederike, alongside serving their bean to bar chocolates and bonbons, serve up ice cream, drinking chocolate, cakes, to name a few. They also guide chocolate tastings, to introduce and share the world of craft, bean to bar chocolate.

The beans

This aromatic cacao is grown using the Brazilian ‘cabruca’ agroforestry system, where the trees are planted under the shade of native forest. This helps to increase biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change in the Bahia region of Brazil.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cacao, cane sugar, cocoa butter

*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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