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Cacaosuyo Cuzco 80%

Cacaosuyo Cuzco 80%

Weight: 70 g

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Reasons to Love

BIPOC Owned

BIPOC Owned

Bean to Bar

Bean to Bar

Direct-Source Cacao

Direct Sourced

Made at Origin

Made at Origin

The cacao for this bar is grown in the Cuzco region of Peru, several hours and many thousands of feet below the famous citadel of Machu Picchu. The bar features lightly sweet notes which start off fruity, but fade slowly into a fresh, fruity herbality. The final herbal note last longer than one might expect, due completely to the character of the cacao used.

Awards
ICA-gold-2020 Award

Manufactured in a facility which also processes dairy

Trace Dairy

Manufactured in a facility which also processes peanuts

Trace Peanuts

Soy Free

Soy Free

Manufactured in a facility which also processes Tree Nuts

Trace Tree Nut

No animal products, but sugar of uncertain origin

Vegan

Gluten Free

Gluten Free

INGREDIENTS & ALLERGENS

Ingredients: organic cacao mass and organic sugar.

May contain traces of milk, tree nuts and peanuts.

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Maker

Cacaosuyo

Cacaosuyo is a "tree to bar" Peruvian chocolate maker with 100% traceability. They pay careful attention to the cacao they use at all stages from harvest, fermentation to the processing of cacao to make the best possible chocolate. Cacaosuyo is so particular about their beans to ensure the best quality that their beans are brought to dedicated labs for analysis. The cacao beans are classified by each and every strain, to detect new flavor profiles and discovering rare varieties. This is a crucial step because this allows rare varieties to become protected which would have otherwise been lost.   Owned by Eduardo Lanfranco and Samir Giha, they craft their chocolate in Lima, Peru using only Peruvian chocolate.

Cacao Region

Cuzco, Peru

Cuzco is both a city and a department of Peru, famous as the home of the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu. The department is located in the southeast of the country; much of the landscape is made up of high-altitude settlements, especially in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, known as the gateway to Machu Picchu. Cuzco’s primary earnings come from tourism, but gold and natural gas extraction are also important. Native types of corn and quinoa, as well as tea and coffee, are the principal agricultural focuses, albeit at lower altitudes.

Cacao Strain

Chuncho

Chuncho cacao encompasses around a dozen related cultivars of the Upper Amazon Forastero group, now considered to be native to the Quillabamba Valley of central Peru. They’re believed to have been domesticated by the Matshiguenga people, whose members were ancestral inhabitants of the Valley. Chuncho trees bear small yellow fruits with small beans (less than 1g per bean), known for their high fat content and very high-altitude growing region (400m-1400m).

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Charlotte
Cacaosuyo Cuzco 80%

Very floral-herbal aroma. Surprisingly light and delicate flavors for such a dark bar - I get notes of pineapple, hay, licorice, tobacco and petrichor. Beautiful depth. Incredible buttery melty texture. Lovely lingering aftertaste.

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Mari
Bitter honey

Has a fruity tobacco aroma. The flavor is bitter; somewhat medicinal but also like honey. It has a dry, powdery mouthfeel. Not my favorite, but I appreciate the complexity of the bitterness.

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John H.
Cuzco

One of the best deep dark complex chocolates that I’ve had in years