Heinde & Verre – Piura, Peru Dark Milk 61%

About the bar

This Cocoa Runners exclusive, limited-edition, 61% dark milk bar from Heinde & Verre is smooth and silky, and is made with Piura Porcelana beans cultivated in Peru. The bar has tasting notes of caramel, nuts, and dried fruits.

Annalisa Barbieri, celebrated columnist and Chocolate Correspondent for The Guardian, stated that Heinde & Verre’s bars are “the sort of chocolate that starts, and perhaps ends, conversations… Their strapline is ‘natural rich chocolate’ and rich is the right word: every bar packs a really flavoursome punch”.

About the maker

Dutch business partners, Heinde & Verre are the Netherlands’ latest excellent craft chocolate makers, developing incredible bars with unique recipes. Established in 2019, they have been growing rapidly expanding their bar catalogue, inventing new recipes and sourcing more wonderful cacao.

The beans

The Norandino cooperative was established to help smallholder families move towards sustainable and diverse cacao-agroforestry systems. Established in 2005, they now have 4,961 members and counting, in a shared mission to adapt chocolate production to help combat climate change.  This region produces a rare variety of cacao bean, Piura Blanco, which has been meticulously selected and replanted over the past decades, pushing this special strain of cacao away from near-extinction. The Piura Cacao belongs to the ‘Nacional’ cacao genetic group, considered to be one of the oldest cacao varieties on the planet, cultivated and consumed in the region where the Peruvian and Ecuadorian boarders meet for over 5,000 years.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cacao, sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, sunflower lecithin

*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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