Chocolate Tree – Chililique, Peru 50% Dark Milk

About the bar

This 50% dark milk chocolate has a unique and interesting flavour profile. Chocolate Tree has coaxed out the acidic and bright notes out of the Chililique cacao, and harmonised it with the creaminess and sweetness of the milk and sugar. The bar has an almost juicy quality, like tart berries bursting in your mouth.

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

Chocolate Tree’s Peruvian Chililique 50% milk bar uses cocoa beans grown in a remote mountain valley of northern Peru. Ali and Friederike Gower, the founders of Chocolate Tree, have an extremely close relationship with their supplier, CacaoTales. CacaoTales works directly with smallholder cocoa farmers, taking care of the tricky steps of fermentation and drying. This means that farmers have more time to spend cultivating fine-flavour cocoa trees, and the consistency and quality possible with centralised processing allows them to sell their beans for higher prices.

Allergens*

Milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Cacao, sugar, milk powder, 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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