Marou – Coconut Milk, Ben Tre 58%

About the bar

We think that this 58% coconut milk bar from Marou has a deliciously rich and fudgy mouth feel. The coconut milk beautifully complements the spicy flavour profile of the Ben Tre cocoa by adding a fruity layer with added notes of raisin.

About the maker

Marou are tree to bar chocolate makers in Vietnam. Samuel Maruta (now sadly deceased) and Vincent Mourou, the founders of Marou,  are well known for their passion for ‘terroir’ in cacao. They understand that climate, soil, and water of each province, along with the different cacao varieties and post-harvest practices, contribute to the different flavour profiles of each origin – much like wine. The Marou name – a combination of Samuel & Vincent’s surnames – has rapidly become synonymous with quality, ethically produced chocolate.

Producing chocolate from the bean in the country of origin is a challenging process. The tropical heat needed to grow cocoa makes producing, storing and shipping finished chocolate bars a logistical nightmare. Marou overcame these obstacles and just two years after they started, they’re already producing some of the best bean to bar chocolate in the world.

The beans

This bar uses cocoa beans from Ben Tre, the southern coastal province of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The chocolate is made in Saigon by two French chocolate makers, Samuel Maruta and Vincent Mourou, with a small and dedicated local team who already make an award winner dark chocolate bar from Ben Tre and multiple other regions of Vietnam.

In 2015/6 after extensive requests, lobbying and indeed demands, Sam and Vincent agreed to make a milk chocolate to complement their range of dark bars. Vietnam doesn’t have a large dairy tradition or history but Vietnam does have a long history of coconut growing and harvesting, based around Ben Tre province. And so they decided to craft a coconut milk craft chocolate bar which out of the blocks won multiple international awards and became a firm favourite

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cocoa, cocoa butter, cane sugar, coconut milk

*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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