Notes of dried flowers and grass mark the absolute altitude of this Rarest of Rare cacao, a singular offering from the lands of the mighty condor, believed by the Incas to be powerful enough to fly to the heavens.

70g

*2017 Academy of Chocolate silver award winner*

100% organic.

Cacao Variety

Upper Amazon Forastero

Chuncho cacao encompasses around a dozen related cultivars of the Upper Amazon Forastero group, now considered to be native to the Quillabamba Valley of central Peru. They’re believed to have been domesticated by the Matshiguenga people, whose members were ancestral inhabitants of the Valley. Chuncho trees bear small yellow fruits with small beans.

Cacao Origin

Sacred Cusco Valley, Peru

Cuzco is both a city and a department of Peru, famous as the home of the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu. The department is located in the southeast of the country; much of the landscape is made up of high-altitude settlements, especially in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, known as the gateway to Machu Picchu. Cuzco’s primary earnings come from tourism, but gold and natural gas extraction are also important. Native types of corn and quinoa, as well as tea and coffee, are the principal agricultural focuses, albeit at lower altitudes.

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

100% cacao mass (Certified Organic)

Soy, dairy and gluten free.