Encuentro – Asochivite, Guatemala 70% Dark

About the bar

An aromatic and bright dark chocolate bar, with deep, dark notes of stone fruit – think juicy purple plums – and festive spices akin to gingerbread.

About the maker

Encuentro’s co-founder Candice discovered the beauty of chocolate in 2008, when she lived in the Dominican Republic for a year. She and her partner, Antonie, set up their first chocolate factory in 2012 in Punta Cana, DR, which put them in close proximity to their cocoa producers and allowed them to become a hub of chocolate tourism. They returned to their home country of France a year later, and re-established a thriving chocolate factory in the suburbs of Paris in 2016. Now they’ve come full circle, having last year moved their factory to Lille, where Antonie and Candice first met.

The beans

The beans for this bar were sourced from the remote village of San Juan Chivite in Guatemala. The village is located on the side of a mountain, and is only reachable by foot. As the original owner of the farmland in the village abandoned the land during the Guatemalan civil war in the 1980’s, the 65 families who were workers of the farm at the time seized the farm and started growing coffee. But when coffee prices began to decline, the families decided to start growing cacao alongside the coffee, and by 2002 the village was only growing cacao. Today, there are 125 families living and growing cacao in the village.

Allergens*

May contain sesame

Ingredients

Cacao beans, cane sugar

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