Hints of floral honey, apricot and jasmine tea are present in this rarest of rare cacao  66% dark chocolate! The taste leads to the wild cacao trees on Amazon forest islands, home to the vivid blue-throated macaw - An origin-specific animal being a wonderfully distinguishable feature of all Original Beans packaging.

Each purchase of the vivid Beni Wild 66% helps to preserve this natural wonderland and its wild inhabitants.

70g

Cacao Variety

Beniano

"The Beniano, that grows endemically in the Bolivian Amazonas, was named after the river where it thrives. The very small beans that weigh just about the half of usual cacao beans, account for the fruity and flowery aroma of the Original Beans Beni Wild Harvest 66% chocolate. Because of their small size, they do not fit the industry norms and machines, but they are exceptionally tasty – small and delicious like wild strawberries."

Cacao Origin

Beni, Bolivia

"Made up of savanna, forest and waterways, the Beni is an archipelago of over 38 forest islands called ‘chocolatales’, the chocolate islands. This region in the Southwestern Amazon basin is marked by environmental extremes: seasons vacillate between drought and floods.

Here is the only place where 100% wild cacao grows. Playing a vital role in its propagation, the last 400 specimen of the vivid blue-throated Macaw courier cacao seeds from forest island to forest island. For centuries, indigenous collectors have sustainably harvested the rarest of rare Beniano cacao, which can often only be reached by boat. The region refers to itself as a traditional chocolate province, a vital heritage we are working to preserve.

ONE BAR : ONE TREE @BENI

Since 2010, Original Beans has promoted Beniano chocolate and its conservation. Wild cacao harvest provides indigenous people with additional income and blends well with traditional land use. But local production infrastructure needed to be built and the logistics of bringing this cacao from the heart of the Beni to you are complex. While wild cacao has been replanted at small scale, our conservation cacao strategy requires a high count of replanted or preserved trees, we support have  and the collection and at times replanting of wild cacao across a vast area and so we plant trees in Virunga

Maker

Original Beans are one of our absolute favourite chocolate makers, and often the bars we'll share with friends and family, each bar an incredible chocolate delicacy.

Since 2008, Original Beans have ventured into remote rainforests to source the world’s rarest & fairest cacao beans and transform the cultures of chocolate, food and luxury. Today, they lead Europe's craft chocolate movement as a pioneer for regenerative business practices.

They are one of the most sustainable chocolate producers on the planet. For every one bar of their chocolate sold, one tree is planted. They make bean-to-bar chocolate with some of the rarest varieties of cacao available in the world, developing fair and equitable relationships with remote communities of growers to bring their special cacao to the world.

Ingredients

Cacao mass*, raw cane sugar*, cacao butter*, Cacao solids: 66% minimum

Despite intensively cleaning after every production with possible allergen ingredients, all Original Beans chocolate may contain traces of hazelnuts and almonds.