Dormouse – Qori Warmi, Peru, Dark 75%

About the bar

This wonderful 75% dark bar from Isobel at Dormouse is bright and smooth. With refreshing notes of citrus, hints of berries, and brightening floral notes, this bar is certainly one worth trying.

About the maker

Manchester’s first bean to bar chocolate maker, Dormouse Chocolates, started producing its very first batches in Isobel’s home kitchen in December 2014. Isobel Carse, founder of Dormouse Chocolates, started her craft chocolate journey as a professional chocolatier with a budding drive to make bean to bar chocolate. Inevitably, Dormouse Chocolates outgrew its small kitchen space, and moved its operations to its own small-scale chocolate factory – today, Karen, Isobel’s partner, helps with washing up duty and chocolate fairs.

The beans

The Qori Warmi Cooperative is based in the Vraem region of Cusco, Peru, an area well known for its incredible cacao and enormous geographical and ecological diversity. Unfortunately, the region is also known for its conflict and illegal coca (the plant that is used to make cocaine) production. However, in 2017, a group formed the Qori Warmi Cooperative with the goal of raising a legal income through the farming of cacao. The 130 members of the Cooperative are primarily women who have taken over the running of their family farms after losing family members to illegal activities, and the name of the cooperative translates to “women are worth gold”.

The varietal of cacao cultivated by the cooperative was selected for its unique, delicate flavour profile, and by using strictly controlled post harvest practices at a central fermentation station the incredible flavours are preserved. The beans are fermented for 6 days in horizontal wooden boxes before being transferred to solar tunnels for drying.

Allergens*

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

Ingredients

Cocoa nibs 68%, sugar 25%, cocoa butter 7%

*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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