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One of Fruition Chocolate Works close friends has spent years combating narco trafficking in Tumaco, Colombia, and updating them on his work. So when they had the opportunity to begin sourcing beans from this area in 2018, they were all pretty excited — especially because these are some of their most delicious, balanced cocoa beans. The farmers make all the difference. For example, Blanca Vivera, a second-generation farmer, grows cacao amid other fruit trees like plantains, and in her free time, she makes chocolate with her own beans from scratch. Blanca and 585 other farmers (and 309 other female farmers) belonging to four cacao cooperatives work with local organization Cacao de Colombia, which buys wet beans from each and then ferments and dries them itself at a central fermentary. Uncommon then finds a home for these beans with chocolate makers looking to pay higher prices for higher-quality beans. These great flavors and consequently higher prices mean that farmers now earn 70 percent more income from cacao than when they were selling dried beans through the commodity market, offering a sustainable alternative to the coca and narco world. Tasting notes: whisky, tobacco, cacao Ingredients: cocoa beans, organic cane sugar BB: 2026-10 with lot number -
The main mission for the Peruvian founders of Maraná, Zulema and Giuseppe is to introduce the world to some of Peru's best cocoa beans. The 100% bar is made with cocoa beans from the Cusco region. In addition, they aim to improve the position of the cooperatives and the farmers and thereby increase the quality of the beans they produce. With their distinctive packaging, Maraná has endeavored to represent the cultural identity and heritage of their country. The packaging for Maraná's Cusco collection is inspired by Sarhua's painted shelves. This was a form of folk art from the Peruvian Andes that the families used to pass on stories about their ancestors to their descendants. Taste notes: rich notes of sweet raisins and molasses with a subtle bourbon-like finish. This bar has a smooth, rather silky texture that perfectly matches its rich, bold overtones. Ingredients: organic cacao mass BB: 2026-01-29 - Brought to you by Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat. Provisions Marou is rugged and full of character. Always available for your everyday indulgence. This non-alkalized (not Dutch-processed) cacao powder retains its fruity notes and complexity. Ingredients: cocoa powder BB: 2025-07-25
- Cacao from Andean heights. Beneath the heights of Machu Picchu, the astonishing citadel built by the ancient Incas, grow the heirloom chuncho cacaos that have survived the passing of times in the Urubamba Valley. The old and sturdy chuncho trees, some of which are 200 years old, grow at an altitude nearly unheard of for growing cacao. This is the home of the endangered condor, the largest flying bird in the world, believed by the Incas to be powerful enough to fly to the heavens. Cacao scientists believe the old chunchos could well be the aromatically richest cacaos in the world. The local families are exceptionally proud of their chuncho heritage and many families carefully harvest beans from their oldest trees to make their own chocolate. They will be even prouder to see the first family of condors released in the wild again as a result of Original Beans’ Cusco Chuncho chocolate. Know your bean: chuncho urusayhua. The chuncho cacaos that can be found in Cusco, Junín and Ayacucho, are a range of different varieties rather than a homogenous group. The cacao fruits are small and so are the beans (less than 1g per bean) – but they are very solid and known for their high fat content. The 100% Cusco Chuncho bar from Original Beans is a real rarity, since chuncho cacao has never been used in a pure selection before. Original Beans propagate and raise this pure selection in special nurseries. Tasting notes: notes of dried flowers and grass mark the absolute altitude of this cacao. Ingredients: organic cacao mass BB: 2025-07-30
- Paccari Chocolate is a Ecuadorian family-owned company which aims to make the highest quality fine flavour chocolate in the world. Made from tree to bar in Ecuador, this fair trade, sustainable, socially responsible, certified organic dark chocolate has won over 150 International Chocolate Awards since 2012.The 100% cacao bean bar has hints of fruit and spices with a perfect balance of slight acidity and bitterness. All of the cacao ingredients in raw chocolate are minimally processed and kept at low temperatures to maintain the antioxidants and complex flavours of the natural cacao bean.
- International Chocolate Awards 2017 World Gold
- Sur del Lago region is located in the tropical lowlands south and west of the Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Trinitarian cocoa beans with high criollo content, tastes reminiscent of raspberries. Ingredients: cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, cocoa butter BB: 2025-05-30 with lot number
- This bar is a silver medal winnig chocolate with higher cocoa content. These cocoa beans from Trincheras, Venezuela are roasted at very low temperatures to preserve every little bits of their natural taste.It’s unique packaging deserved a bronze award in the 2013 AoC award. Ingredients: Trincheras cocoa beans, organic cocoa butter, organic cane sugar BB: 2024-06-30 with lot number
- 100% cocoa sugar-free powder from Valrhona with exceptional finesse and intense flavor for delicious chocolate drinks or for gourmet recipes. To make your hot drink, mix two teaspoons of cocoa (per person) and the required amount of sugar, or no sugar at all, with a little of hot milk of your choice, then add the rest of the milk. The École du Grand Chocolat also invites you to create pastries, truffles and sauces with a recipe designed by its Chefs. Ingredients: cocoa powder BB: 2024-10
