Höganäs – San Jose, Los Rios, Ecuador, Dark 70%

About the bar

We’re still awaiting tasting notes for this bar, so stay tuned. The bar is made with the CCN51 varietal, a high-yield & disease-resistant cacao that is used by the majority of the chocolate industry – try the bar, and let us know what you think!

About the maker

Höganäs chocolate was founded by Gustavo Marun Cozzarelli in 2018. Gustavo was born and raised on the Hacienda San Jose cacao farm in Ecuador, which has been owned and run by his family for almost 100 years. The name ‘Höganäs’ was inspired by the man who transforms their single-origin cocoa beans into bars, in his chocolate factory in Sweden. As the beans are grown in Ecuador and the chocolate is produced in Sweden, the packaging for their bars is designed as a postcard to connect both the farm and the factory together. Höganäs’ mission is to turn all of the cocoa grown at Hacienda San Jose into high quality, award-winning chocolates, that have full traceability and sustainability.

The beans

All of Höganäs’ bars are made with beans sourced from Hacienda San Jose in Los Rios, Ecuador. Gustavo’s family have been perfecting the fermentation methods for the beans for five generations, adapting techniques from harvesting other crops such as bananas, giving the farm the highest production yields in the country for cocoa.

Allergens*

May contain cereals containing gluten, may contain peanuts, may contain soybeans, may contain milk, may contain nuts, may contain sesame

Ingredients

Cacao 63%, natural cacao butter 7%, sugar 30%

*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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