Storm & Bille – Idukki, India, 100%

About the bar

This 100% dark bar from Storm and Bille is rich and bold, with tasting notes of cherry, raisins, and a dash of honey on the finish.

About the maker

Storm and Bille, founded in 2017, is a Swedish-based bean-to-bar chocolate maker with a focus on the local and national Swedish market, and only a handful of distributers abroad. Their mission? To produce delicious two-ingredient single origin chocolate products which anyone can eat – all of their chocolate is free from allergens, vegan, and organic. Their chocolate factory (translated to Chokladfabrik in Swedish) is located in the heart of Linné, a food district in the city center of Gothenburg, Sweden. The factory is pretty compact at 45 square metres, and Kristin & Johan employ 1.5 employees per year. It also has a storefront area where customers can buy chocolate & take part in tastings… so if you’re ever visiting Gothenburg in Sweden, make sure you pop in!

The beans

Known as the spice garden of Kerala, the Idukki region of southern India has long had the climate and ecology to grow cocoa. But it wasn’t until 2016, when GoGround started investing in post-harvest processing facilities and farmer education, that fine-flavour cocoa farming really took off. Now husband-and-wife Luca and Ellen, with the support of the Italian RIVA foundation, have built relationships with the smallholder farmers of Udumbannoor, paying them guaranteed weekly payments in exchange for freshly harvested cocoa beans.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

100% cacao beans

*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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