Foundry – Korosim Microlots, Solomon Islands 70% dark

About the bar

This Gold award-winner from the Academy of Chocolate 2025 has both tweet, tropical notes and rich toffee and nutty flavours. As with all of Foundry’s bars, it’s made with just two ingredients in an allergen-free environment.

About the maker

David and his wife Janelle are the chocolate magicians behind Foundry Chocolate, New Zealand’s newest craft chocolate maker. And just like the world’s finest single malt distilleries and craft vineyards, the Mahurangi-based chocolate makers are dedicated to capturing the unique character of origin. The husband and wife team have both applied their ‘craft’ in their own unique way – David has not only accentuated the ingredients’ provenance and terroir, he’s tinkered with time, temperature and even the chocolate making machinery to ensure each micro-batch is unforgettable. Janelle has put her knowledge of art-direction and design into packaging, so when their bars are unwrapped, feels like an event in itself.

About the beans

The beans are sourced from ten small villages and their microlot cacao farms, from the three islands of Guadalcanal, Malaita and Vella La Vella.

The villages contributing to Korosim Microlots are:
Ghombua – Aola Ward, Guadalcanal
Geza – NE Tasimboko, Guadalcanal
New Tenabuti – NE Tasimboko, Guadalcanal
Berande – NE Tasimboko, Guadalcanal
Sali – Paripao Ward, Guadalcanal
White Stone – Lau Mbaelelea, Malaita
Humo – Lau Mbaelelea, Malaita
Kaoabu – Mbegu Asifola, Malaita
Kwaea – Lau Mbaelelea, Malaita
Paspaskato – North Vella, Vella La Vella

The name Korosim derives from Solomons Pidgin English, meaning ‘crossing’. Janelle was inspired by the connection between the islands and the crossings involved in collecting the beans in her design for the packaging.

From Foundry:

This cacao is part of a project from ADRA International, who work on long-term development programs for communities in more than 130 countries. ADRA has worked with the men and women of these villages, on growing, fermentation and post-harvest techniques, with a focus on sustainable cocoa crops, techniques such as pruning, grafting, crop management, assistance with fermentation box construction and drying facilities, and providing a channel to market for them. This all results in high quality and flavourful cacao beans for craft chocolate makers, and boosted incomes for families.

The premium prices families are now receiving for their cacao has already had a wide range of benefits. Some are now able to send their children to high school while simultaneously starting to save funds. Others are now able to reinvest in their farms, while other farms are seeing younger farmers take over from older family members as cacao becomes more valuable and rewarding to grow.

No nutritional information available for this product.

*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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