Auro Reserve Paquibato 70%
Auro Reserve Paquibato 70%
Weight: 60 g
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Reasons to love:
Bean to Bar
Bean to Bar
Direct-Source Cacao
Direct Sourced
Made at Origin
Made at Origin
BIPOC Owned
BIPOC Owned
Woman Owned
Woman Owned
Located in between tropical mountain forests, Paquibato is a community that grows many fruit trees, giving its chocolate notes of forest, valley flowers, dark honey and caramelized nuts.
The Auro Reserve Collection is meticulously crafted from the finest beans of a single estate. They approach every variety and every harvest with a fresh perspective to bring out the rare and distinctive characteristics that come from each community and their land.
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Maker
Auro Chocolate -
Country
Philippines -
Cacao Origin
Davao
No animal products, and vegan sugar or alternative sweetener
Vegan+
Manufactured in a facility which also processes dairy
Trace Dairy
Manufactured in a facility which also processes peanuts
Trace Peanuts
Sesame Free
Sesame Free
Manufactured in a facility which also processes soy
Trace Soy
Manufactured in a facility which also processes Tree Nuts
Trace Tree Nuts
Gluten Free
Gluten Free
INGREDIENTS & ALLERGENS
INGREDIENTS & ALLERGENS
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REAL CHOCOLATE
True chocolate has rich, nuanced flavors. Like wine it can change with cacao bean variety and where it's grown
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ETHICALLY SOURCED
Our chocolate makers source cacao at high standards beyond Fair Trade, and produce responsibly.
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A CURATED SELECTION
A diverse selection sourced from the top 2% of all chocolate in the world.
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25,000+ HAPPY CUSTOMERS
Once you try real chocolate, nothing else compares.
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Maker
Auro ChocolateAuro Chocolate is a Filipino bean to bar chocolate company that practices sustainable harvesting of cacao which they get directly from farms in Davao Philippines. Owners Mark Ocampo and Kelly Go, originally political science majors, with no background in pastries or chocolate at all, took a trip to the Philippines where their love for small craft chocolate was born. Auro is committed to restore local heirloom varieties of Filipino cacao and showcase Filipino taste varieties and culture from the Davao region in some of their single estate chocolate bars. Auro provides support and education to its farmers to teach them organic farming and important business management fundamentals in order to improve their standards of living. Auro is globally recognized and have won awards for their chocolate. Mark and Kelly wanted their chocolate company to reflect something with gold. They believe that like gold, farmers and cacao are not given the recognition they deserve. Both gold and cacao are not fully cherished in its raw form until its been altered, that’s when people see its true value.
Cacao Region
Davao, PhilippinesOne of the smallest big cities in the Philippines, Davao City is affectionately known as both the cacao and durian capital of the country. In fact, often you'll see both fruit trees growing on the same plantations within city limits, yet due to large soil & cacao varietal differences, you'll find that the resulting chocolates taste nothing alike. The region is so widespread that there's even a citywide speed limit that makes a trip from one end to the other take nearly two hours without traffic!
Cacao Estate
Mang Jose EstateMang Jose Saguban of Paquibato, Davao City is one of Auro Chocolate’s original farming partners. The founders of Auro Chocolate first met Mang Jose in October 2015, and were impressed by his passion for cacao and leadership in his community. Mang Jose has been growing cacao since the 1970’s and believes in planting cacao that he personally enjoys consuming rather than just blindly following the advice of others. As a result, he has a lot of older varieties of cacao on his farm, including criollo varietals believed to have been brought over by the Spanish colonizers in the 17th century. In late 2019, Mang Jose’s cacao was announced among the world’s top 20 cacao beans by the Cocoa of Excellence Program.
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