Cocoa Retreat – Mono Bravo, Esmeraldas Ecuador, Dark Chocolate 68%

About the bar

This single-origin, micro batch Dark 68% bar is formed of organic Nacional Venezolano Amarillo cacao, which has been awarded a spot in the World Top 50 Cacao of Excellence. Expect gorgeous notes of treacle toffee, baked red fruits and nuts to linger on the tongue.

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

This wonderfully smooth dark chocolate is made from cocoa beans which are expertly harvested and dried on Freddy Salazar’s farm, 6 miles off the north-west coast of Ecuador on the steep slopes of the Cloud Forest.

Nutritional info coming soon.

Allergens*

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

Ingredients

Organic cacao, organic unbleached cane sugar, 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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