Rosa Canina – O’Tuma, Nicaragua, Dark 80% with Nibs

About the bar

This deep and bold 80% dark bar from Rosa Canina combines the intensity of O’Tuma cacao beans with roasted cacao nibs, adding a great texture against the smooth chocolate. The nibs hit with an immediate burst of fruity notes, before moving to a more classic chocolatey, nutty flavour, with slightly earthy notes of almond on the finish.

About the maker

Rosa Canina was originally founded as an organic ice cream company in 2008 in Berlin, Germany. The shop was opened by Reimar Philipps, who was then joined by Moritz Weber in 2014, and the two of them have run it together ever since. In 2020, they expanded to work more directly with cacao, where they brought in Zoe as Head Chocolate Maker. Today, they are a small team focusing on b0th of ice cream and chocolate. Rosa Canina’s goal is simple: to make chocolate that tastes exceptional. Their curiosity to discover why this is the case has led them to traceable origins, honest sourcing, and producers who take cacao as seriously as they take chocolate. Not only is their cacao traceable, but their sugar too, prioritising honesty in sourcing.

The beans

The O’Tuma cacao is grown by smallholder farms in the Waslala region of Nicaragua, where they have been cultivating cacao for generations. Their mission is to produce exceptional cacao while supporting rural communities, organic agriculture, and reforestation. The fresh beans are collected from farmers and centrally fermented in wooden boxes for approximately five to six days, and then carefully sun-dried until they reach a stable moisture content suitable for export. Once the fresh beans are collected from farms, they are processed centrally, and the dried cacao is transported by truck to export facilities before shipment.

Allergens*

May contain nuts

Ingredients

Cacao (83%), raw cane sugar (17%

*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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