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Rhyme and Reason Dark Ecuador 75%

Rhyme and Reason Dark Ecuador 75%

Weight: 50 g

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Single origin 2 ingredient chocolate bar made with beans from Costa Esmeraldas.

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No animal products, but sugar of uncertain origin

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INGREDIENTS & ALLERGENS

Ingredients: Cocoa Beans, Organic Cane Sugar

Made in a facility that also handles peanuts, treenuts and dairy.

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  • REAL CHOCOLATE

    Fine chocolate has rich, nuanced flavors. Like wine it can change with cacao bean variety and where it's grown.

  • ETHICALLY SOURCED

    Our chocolate makers source cacao at high standards beyond Fair Trade, and produce responsibly.

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Maker

Rhyme and Reason

Meet Elizabeth Tully, founder of Rhyme and Reason Chocolate company. We're thrilled to feature this local and award winning chocolate maker from North Carolina, just miles away from our headquaters. Elizabeth got her start in making chocolate while she and her husband lived in Singapore and have alreay won a few accolodes for their unique flavors and chocolate.

Region - Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Cacao Region

Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Esmeraldas is the northernmost province of Ecuador, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and western Colombia. The province is notable for its strong Afro-Ecuadorian culture & seafood-based cuisine, as well as the beautiful beaches. Much of Esmeraldas’ population relies upon agriculture to make a living, with the most important crops being banana, tobacco, coffee, and cacao.

Cacao Estate

Costa Esmeraldas

Located in the coastal Ecuadorian province of Esmeraldas, this family-run estate has experienced a complete turnaround in recent years. After nearly a decade of their farm just scraping by through selling produce into the commodity market, in 2015 the Salazar family took on the project of completely revamping the 100-hectare farm. This included adding a complete post-harvest processing facility on-site, which is now managed by Freddy Salazar, the youngest sibling in the family. Management of the cacao orchards create over 40 full-time jobs within the local community in rural Esmeraldas, while the fine flavor neo-nacional beans they grow are now used by over a dozen chocolate companies around the world. Makers favor it for its strong base notes of cocoa, roasted nuts, and light fruitiness, with almost no astringency or bitterness.

Cacao Strain

Cacao Strain: Esmeraldas

This cacao strain takes its name from the northern Ecuadorean province to which it is native. The path which brought it there is yet unclear, but experts agree that Esmeraldas contains some amount of criollo ancestry, maybe even the same criollo types found in ancient Mesoamerica. But whatever its origin, the pods are mostly small and maroon-colored, with relatively few fruits per tree. The characteristic flavor profile of Esmeraldas cacao is incredibly mild, with traces of spices and melon, though chocolate made from pure Esmeraldas is uncommon.

Maker - Costa Esmeraldas
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