Luisa Abram – Tocantins, Brazil 70% Dark

About the bar

This 70% bar from Luisa Abram has a creamy melt, and is extremely refreshing. As the bar melts on your tongue, strong citrus notes of lemons and oranges burst through the chocolate, before developing into a finish of gentle honey.

About the maker

Luisa Abram is a chocolate maker that dedicates itself to sourcing micro-lot, wildly grown cacao from the Amazon Rainforest. The chocolate is made small-scale in São Paulo, Brazil by the Abram-Banks family: Luisa, Andre, Mirian and Andrea. The family take a very hands-on approach to chocolate-making, controlling and overlooking every stage of the process, from the harvesting of the cacao to the finished bar and logistics. This explains why the chocolate tastes so good and so personal at the same time – quality is very important to Luisa Abram.

The beans

To produce their Rio Tocantins bars, maker Luisa Abram sources wild cacao growing on the banks of the Tocantins River around Mocajuca, a city which has participated in cacao commercialisation since the 17th century. Luisa was able to shift production from so-called bulk cacao, which is not fermented and sold to large industries with no concern with the quality of the cacao flavours or aromas, to increased cacao quality through fermentation, a mission they achieved by providing training to their now-partners, Mario and Marcio in 2017. Now paying farmers BRL 30-36 per kilo, in contrast to the BRL 10-12 paid by large companies for bulk cacao, Luisa has increased the salaries of up to 20 families.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cocoa mass, organic cane sugar

*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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