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This chocolate bar is a tribute to the Lost City of a vanished ancient civilization, discovered within Honduras' virgin tropical rainforest. The indigenous people living nearby in the Gracias a Dios region protect the forest and make a sustainable living as harvesters of wild cacao. The cacao is processed in their village and put on hollowed-out tree log canoes, called pipantes, for a two-day voyage upstream to the nearest road. We are the first American craft chocolate maker to make a single-origin chocolate from these remote beans. The chocolate bar has exceptional nutty flavor notes of roasted almonds. It's our homage to timelessness of this place.

Ingredients: organic cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter

Allergen information: contains no nuts, wheat, gluten, or soy (nut-free, soy-free, gluten-free).

*Made in a facility that uses dairy.

Maker
Castronovo
Country
United States
Cacao Origin
Honduras

Castronovo The Lost City Honduras 72%

Weight: 62 g

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Ingredients: organic cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter

Allergen information: contains no nuts, wheat, gluten, or soy (nut-free, soy-free, gluten-free).

*Made in a facility that uses dairy.

Maker
Castronovo
Country
United States
Cacao Origin
Honduras

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Castronovo was started by Denise Castronovo in Stuart, Florida. While Castronovo was only launched in 2013, Denise has made some strikingly different and exceptional chocolate that has won over twenty awards both nationally and internationally. Denise is the first woman-owned bean to bar chocolate company in the U.S that won an award from the International Chocolate Awards! Denise picks heirloom varieties of cacao from remote regions that help to conserve the rainforest and highlight the exclusive flavors from those regions. Castronovo also ensures that the beans she uses come from plantations that naturally exist in the wild, or from small farms that practice sustainable farming. Denise is there every step of the way to ensure not only quality chocolate bars but ensuring that even the beans are carefully looked after. Castronovo decided to get into the chocolate making business after her original career as an ecologist and owning her own company that uses mapping technology to look at satellite imagery for ecological health slowed down in 2008. She purchased a bag of cacao beans, when it dawned on her that, that was the first time she realized where chocolate comes from.

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Collection title: Cacao Origin: Honduras

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Collection title: Castronovo

Collection description: Castronovo was started by Denise Castronovo in Stuart, Florida. While Castronovo was only launched in 2013, Denise has made some strikingly different and exceptional chocolate that has won over twenty awards both nationally and internationally. Denise is the first woman-owned bean to bar chocolate company in the U.S that won an award from the International Chocolate Awards! Denise picks heirloom varieties of cacao from remote regions that help to conserve the rainforest and highlight the exclusive flavors from those regions. Castronovo also ensures that the beans she uses come from plantations that naturally exist in the wild, or from small farms that practice sustainable farming. Denise is there every step of the way to ensure not only quality chocolate bars but ensuring that even the beans are carefully looked after. Castronovo decided to get into the chocolate making business after her original career as an ecologist and owning her own company that uses mapping technology to look at satellite imagery for ecological health slowed down in 2008. She purchased a bag of cacao beans, when it dawned on her that, that was the first time she realized where chocolate comes from.

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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.

Collection title: Tumaco, Colombia

Collection description: Tumaco is a port city & municipality in the Nariño Department, on the Pacific Ocean side of coastal Colombia. It’s located less than 30 miles from the border with Ecuador, and enjoys a year-round tropical rainforest climate, even on the region’s many beaches. Most of the residents of Tumaco are Afro-Colombian or indigenous peoples, many of whom rely upon agriculture to make their living; largely in either rice, oil palm, or cacao.

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Collection description: We've curated the best chocolate from American chocolate makers. Any of these award winning chocolate makers and upcoming craft artisanal chocolates are sure to please!

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Collection description: This collection highlights craft chocolate bars from women chocolate makers or women owned chocolate companies.

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