Ritual – Soconusco, Mexico 75%

About the bar

Ritual’s first impression of Soconusco’s cacao was its extreme nuttiness, which holds true to this dark chocolate. It’s nutty, woody, chocolatey, and with a hint of citrus.

About the maker

From making chocolate in their apartment to now running a chocolate factory and chocolate-cafe, Anna Davies and Robbie Stout have transformed Ritual into one of the best know craft chocolate makers in the US. In early 2015 the pair opened their chocolate factory in Park City, Utah, who six years prior meet, fell in love and in parallel discovered the delights of craft, small batch fine chocolate.

For Anna and Robbie, making chocolate is about more than just crafting delicious bars. Rather, Ritual is a chocolate maker that is motivated by “improving the quality of life through chocolate” – from serving the cacao growers to the chocolate lovers. Anna and Robbie are focused on the best ways to express the terroir of the single estate cacao beans they can source.

The beans

This dark chocolate is made with cacao from the Rayen cooperative, a recent network of cacao growers in the southwest of Mexico’s Chiapas region: Soconusco. Rayen cooperative focus on quality and continuing the reputation of Soconusco as a region for growing fine flavour cacao. It partners with international chocolate makers and Mexican chocolatiers to boost their production and find new, direct buyers while conserving biodiversity in the cacao forests of Soconusco.

Allergens*

May contain cereals containing gluten, may contain peanuts, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Cacao, cane sugar, cocoa butter

*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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