Marou – Lam Dong, Dark 74%

About the bar

This 74% dark bar from Marou is made from beans grown in the Lam Dong province in the Mekong delta. It’s won numerous awards and we find flavour notes of balsamic, bread and raisins with a black cherry finish.

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

Lam Dong is a highland region, a mountainous province with a temperate, mild climate all year round. This stable climate rarely changes from year to year. Lam Dong has other weather phenomena of note such as fog, salt flog, rain, thunderstorms and hail but these are not periodic. The result of growing in this area and being influenced by the weather means that cocoa beans in Lam Dong produce a special type of chocolate.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cocoa, cocoa butter, 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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