Lucid – Peru, Dark Milk, 52% with Sourdough

About the bar

This is a 52% dark milk bar from Lucid, with the inclusion of New Zealand country-style sourdough. The bread is baked with a blend of organic stoneground flours from New Zealand, and after drying and lightly toasting the bread, Lucid blends it with their own nut browned butter and top it off with a pinch of Opito Bay sea salt. These inclusions blend harmoniously with the Marañon cacao, creating a nice blend of sweet and savoury flavours.

About the maker

Lucid Chocolate is a New Zealand bean-to-bar chocolate maker founded by chocolatier and chocolate maker Johnty Tatham in 2020. After an initial launch later that year, the company refined its vision and relaunched in 2022, quickly earning recognition with a strong showing at the New Zealand Chocolate Awards. Today, Lucid remains a small team, with Johnty working full-time alongside two part-time staff from the family farm where the chocolate is made.

The beans

The beans for this bar are called ‘Puro Nacional’, and were harvested on Mr. Fortunato’s farm in the Marañon Valley, Peru. In the early twentieth century, the Puro Nacional, a variety of exceptional Ecuadorian cocoa bean, was declared to be extinct after disease ravaged the area. But in 2007, two Americans who were supplying equipment to local mining companies in the Marañon Valley, Peru, stumbled upon a strange cocoa tree. They sent the fruit off for DNA analysis, which confirmed that the new beans were pure strains of the old Puro Nacional. This exceptionally rare cocoa bean is now cultivated in the valley and imbues each chocolate bar with beautiful elegance and astonishing complexity.

Nutritional info coming soon.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients coming soon.

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