It is an intense chocolate with extraordinary strength but at the same time with a tantalizing delicacy, and with an acidity which imparts freshness, leaving the mouth completely clean and immediately wanting to try some more. It has a decisive flavor of toasted almonds which alternates with pressed olives. A unique experience, a flavor long and persistent. It is a type of cocoa which goes far beyond the idea of chocolate as the world market usually thinks of it.
Awards: Gold 2016, 2009 & 2008 Academy of Chocolate
Ingredients: cocoa mass, cane sugar, cocoa butter, Cocoa min. 70%
*May contain traces of hazelnut, almond, pistachio, walnut, milk. No soy lecithin, no artificial colors or flavoring, gluten free.
Amedei Tuscany a gourmet Italian chocolate brand was founded by Cecilia Tessieri, the world's first female master chocolatier. From Tuscany, Italy, Tessieri started making confections in tiny 480 square foot space with just one employee, until she realized that not everything was made completely by her. Tessieri spent 24 years traveling around the world, working with chocolatiers in a male dominant field and visiting cacao plantations in search for the best chocolate. Tessieri created Amedei, named after her grandmother in 1990. Amedei uses only the best ingredients and Tessieri carefully overseeing each step the cacao beans go through to ensure fine quality chocolate. Only 1% of the beans harvested are deemed worthy to create Amedei’s chocolate. Amedei evolved as one of the world’s premier luxury chocolate makers and is a six time winner of the Academy of Chocolate’s “Golden Bean” award (equivalent to the Academy Award for chocolatiers, according to Tessieri.
I've never heard of umbu before. Not sure how I'd like the fruit but it works well with the chocolate. Tart and sweet pieces of fruit in the chocolate.