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Dark chocolate made with Catongo cacao.

Three years in the making… Arcelia received this cacao in 2017 and wanted to wait a little time for it to mellow out. Now she is ready to share this chocolate with you. The variety of cacao used for this bar produces an orange colored dark chocolate. With that color also comes some high acidity that is characteristic of this cacao variety - Catongo, a white forastero. Waiting for the cacao to mellow those three years has definitely given it the upper hand.

Arcelia received an award for this chocolate in 2017 from the Academy of Chocolate in London. That awarded chocolate bar was her first Brazilian chocolate to be awarded and was made with cacao from the 2016 harvest. This is batch # 2, let us see how you feel about it. :)

Ingredients: cacao, organic sugar, cocoa butter.
Allergy Information: Gluten free. Soy Free. Dairy Free.

May contain nuts, peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, oats and Brazil nuts.

Maker
Mission Chocolate
Country
Brazil
Cacao Origin
Brazil

Mission Chocolate Catongo 70% (Limited)

Weight: 60 g

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May contain nuts, peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, oats and Brazil nuts.

Maker
Mission Chocolate
Country
Brazil
Cacao Origin
Brazil

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Mission Chocolate

Mission Chocolate is a bean to bar chocolate maker based in São Paulo, Brazil. Arcelia Gallardo the founder/maker has previously trained as a chocolatier, opened a chocolate shop in California, and also trained as a bean to bar maker at Dandelion Chocolate. Arcelia has taken strides to expand the bean to bar movement in Brazil, working with farmers on process, and also helped initiate the Association of Bean to Bar Brasil Makers.

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Collection title: All Chocolate Bars

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Collection title: BIPOC Chocolate

Collection description: This collection highlights craft chocolate bars from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) owned chocolate companies and chocolate makers.

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Collection title: Cacao Origin: Brazil

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Collection title: Dark Chocolate

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Collection title: Fazenda Lajedo Do Ouro

Collection description: The Lajedo Do Ouro Estate is a family-owned estate, operated by the third generation of the Magalhães family in the coastal region of Bahia, Brazil. Located within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Atlantic Forest, the farm is maintained in the traditional Brazilian approach of cabruca. This is a sustainable growing system in which cacao— which is native to Brazil— is raised under the protection of at least 40 other native trees & types of vegetation. The Magalhães family's cacao has been domestically- and internationally-awarded for its high quality and unique flavor profile, which they attribute to careful raising & processing of their native cacao varietals.

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Collection title: Mission Chocolate

Collection description: Mission Chocolate is a bean to bar chocolate maker based in São Paulo, Brazil. Arcelia Gallardo the founder/maker has previously trained as a chocolatier, opened a chocolate shop in California, and also trained as a bean to bar maker at Dandelion Chocolate. Arcelia has taken strides to expand the bean to bar movement in Brazil, working with farmers on process, and also helped initiate the Association of Bean to Bar Brasil Makers.

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Collection title: Soy Free Chocolate

Collection description: These chocolates do not list soy products as a main ingredient. Some of the chocolates say: "may contain traces of soy" where perhaps a very small amount may have come in contact with the food due to shared equipment or facility usage. Each product has icons that indicate whether a product is completely soy free or may contain traces.

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Interesting!

Light, orangey brown color with a soft, gooey mouthfeel. Looks more like a milk chocolate and has a similar mouthfeel. The main flavor I get is of floral honey

Unique variety, worth trying.

This bar is made with a unique variety of cacao called Catongo which is lower in compounds that often give cacao a dark color and some bitter flavor. While I didn't love this bar on the basis on flavor alone, it certainly wasn't unpleasant - notes of raisin, dried fig, and cookies, with very little bitterness and astringency. The texture was quite soft and overall the bar is very sweet. The really striking this is the light color - it's 70%, but looks like a reddish milk chocolate! I always like trying different varieties and origins, so I would recommend this bar if you eat a lot of craft chocolate and want to try something different.