Forager’s Delight with 70% Hacienda Palo Santo - Cerecita - Ecuador Dark Chocolate

2019 Harvest -

Single Estate - Responsibly sourced - Bean to Bar

Provenance: Hacienda Palo Santo | Cerecita - Ecuador

A sumptuous, creamy and deeply fragrant chocolate bar with the subtle, crunchy texture of organic dried berries. It’s a decadent marriage of tropical fine cacao from Cerecita, Ecuador and flavorful organic berries from California, United States.

Our tasting Notes: 

Aromas: A cacophony of sweet berries and heavenly fudge brownies. 

Flavors: There are minty notes of pine, juicy dried apricot and raisin hints as well as a creaminess in the texture that leaves you wanting more and more.

Ingredients:
Inclusions: Organic dried strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.
Chocolate: Nacional Cacao Arriba 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.