Hacienda Palo Santo 70% Aged in Palo Santo wood - Dark Chocolate -Cerecita - Ecuador

2019 Harvest 

Single Estate - Responsibly sourced - Bean to Bar

Provenance: Hacienda Palo Santo | Cerecita, Ecuador

Our tasting notes: This bar is a sumptuous, creamy, and bright dark chocolate treat with a deep fudge character. The Palo santo wood aging adds a luxurious flavor, fragrance and a divine silky texture

Aromas: Deep, heavenly fudge brownies. 

Flavors: Fudge, cedar, and pine notes with a silky smooth creaminess in a texture that goes great with a glass of red wine, a fine whisky, or a specialty cup of coffee.

Ingredients:
Chocolate: Nacional cacao beans, cane sugar, and cacao butter.

About the main ingredient, the cacao!

Hacienda Palo Santo is a cacao farm located on the Cerecita Valley near the Ecuadorian coast, one hour away from Guayaquil.

Palo Santo is owned and daily managed by a family of agronomists who have been involved in the cacao production over three generations, developing innovative production techniques to protect resources and increase productivity while working on rigorous post-harvest controls with the needed infrastructure to produce the highest quality and homogenous cacao beans and pulp.