Encuentro – PISA, Haiti 100%

About the bar

This 100% cacao bar has a floral profile with bright acidity. There’s a delicate balance of astringency and creaminess, and sourness with bitterness which it makes it ever so compelling.

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

Produits Des Iles SA (PISA) is committed to changing the way cacao is processed and exported from Haiti. It launched its centralised processing facility in 2014, and marked a revolutionary change in Haiti’s cacao production system. Now, PISA is the only company purchasing and centrally fermenting wet cacao, and as a result are able to sell it at a higher price for its higher quality. Farmers now earn approximately four-times as much as they did before PISA, and are simultaneously incentivised to grow fine and flavour cacao.

Allergens*

May contain sesame

Ingredients

Cacao beans

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