Mucho – Finca Siempre Viva Lavado, Mexico, Dark 70% (Washed Fermentation)

About the bar

This 70% dark chocolate bar from Mucho is grainy and delicious, and is packed full of earthy and chocolatey tasting notes.

This bar is made with ‘cacao lavado’, one of Mexico’s three post-harvest processing techniques. Lavado is “washed” fermented cacao, the white pulp having been washed away from the beans within a couple of days of opening the pods. Usually used for making drinking cocoa, this technique has been chosen by Mucho for the particular flavours it brings out in the beans. Why not try the two side by side, for a discount, and discover for yourself the effect fermentation has on the beans’ flavour?

About the maker

Ana Maria started Mucho Chocolate in 2012 as a museum to showcase Mexico’s rich heritage in chocolate. She quickly realised that there was a huge gap in the market for fine Mexican chocolate, and she has set out to highlight and reveal the amazing variety of cocoas and cocoa growing regions in Mexico, so Ana Maria started her production of chocolate bars in 2014.  Mucho’s packaging is delightfully minimalist – and eminently presentable.

The beans

The beans for this bar are sourced from the Finca Siempre Viva farm, owned by Mr. Gregorio Bernardo Rodriguez in Santana, Tabasco, Mexico. Santana is an example of a Yoko T’anob community, inhabitants of the tropical rainforest who thrive near the rivers edge. Santana is a community with a strong cacao culture alongside rich biodiversity, and Don Greogrio is a great promoter of conservation of the regions productive cacao culture and biodiversity. The plantation was commended for their biodiversity friendly practices in 2017 by CONABIO.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cocoa 70%, 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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