Cocoa Retreat – Maranon, Peru, 100% Dark Chocolate

About the bar

This 100% boasts a deliciously creamy beginning, with background notes of baked peach and ripe cherries. Expect a balanced smoked salt finish. The rediscovered and rare cacao creates a nuanced 100% with very little bitterness.

About the maker

Cocoa Retreat is a one woman operation producing small batch craft chocolate. Oenone Thomas is a chocolate maker with an incredible sense for good flavours, using her expertise to roast to perfection and create wonderful recipes for each variety of cacao bean.

In Oenone’s first career, she trained and worked as a journalist before moving on to become a child and adolescent counsellor. Behind the scenes, she has always had a love for chocolate, initially this was  a hobby for finding new and wonderful chocolate and a joy for eating it. Slowly, she developed the knowhow for producing small batch chocolate and has since been perfecting her craft.

The beans

In the early twentieth century, the Puro Nacional, a variety of exceptional Ecuadorian cocoa bean, was declared to be extinct after disease ravaged the area. Therefore, today (having survived near extinction) the Nacional bean is incredibly rare, creating exceptional quality chocolate.

Nutritional info coming soon.

Allergens*

May contain cereals containing gluten, may contain peanuts, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Organic cacao, organic cacao 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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