Chocolate specialties
Dark chocolates specialties.
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Pure chocolate without the sugar. The “perfect superfood” packed with anti-oxidants and mood-enhancing properties. Almost the perfect balance of vitamins and minerals. As a pure fermented fruit, with a long shelf life, this is the ideal vegan treat. Saving the planet one time at the time.
Environmentally friendly: Melt bars are completely plastic-free as we care about our environment and our oceans. Gift a pristine ocean to our children by reducing single-use plastic packaging – Melt has been at the vanguard of this movement for over 10 years.
This product has a 1-year shelf life.
Vegan, lactose and gluten free.
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Cacaosuyo’s Chuncho Cuzco bar is crafted from cacao from the area around Andean city of Cusco. The cocoa from this region is known as cacao chuncho, named after the jungle zone of Chunchada. They’re widely regarded as one of the top beans coming from Peru, with a fine aroma that is greatly superior to the hybrid varietals from the country.
Made from rare beans grown deep within the Peruvian jungle, this is a bar that impresses from the outset. This intense 70% cacao bar with a coarse texture.
Made with just two ingredients – cocoa beans and sugar – it’s a wonderful illustration of the range of flavours hidden within the cocoa bean.
This bar won a Bronze in the 2017 Peru round of the International Chocolate Awards.
May cotain traces of milk and nuts.
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One hundred percent pure cacao. We’ve carefully reduced the acidity and added a little organic cocoa butter. In partnership with Uncommon Cacao we are helping to maintain biodiversity in Belize through careful organic agroforestry.
Made in a factory that handles dairy and nuts.
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In a remote mountain valley of Northern Peru, is the village of Chililique.
In partnership with CacaoTales the farmers there are processing their cacao to a high standard so we can make exceptional chocolate.
Made in a factory that handles dairy and nuts.
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Melt goes wild with this exciting dark chocolate bar. The rare organic beans are harvested from wild cocoa trees in Bolivia, this chocolate is not rough or untamed, but smooth, sweet and soft.
Exotic and rare cocoa beans are sourced by Chimane Indians deep in Amazon rainforest. Travelling through the Amazon on horses or dugout canoes they collect the beans from wild cacao trees. Melt then handcrafts them in its kitchen in the heart of Notting Hill – keeping food miles to a minimum. Beautiful plastic-free packaging – because we wish to keep the Amazon pristine.
This chocolate will give you a long, clean finish.
Exotic and rare cocoa beans are sourced by Chimane Indians deep in Amazon rainforest. Travelling through the Amazon on horses or dugout canoes they collect the beans from wild cacao trees. Melt then handcrafts them in its kitchen in the heart of Notting Hill – keeping food miles to a minimum. Beautiful plastic-free packaging – because we wish to keep the Amazon pristine.
Environmentally friendly.
This product has a 1-year shelf life.
Melt uses nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, dairy, soya and wheat (gluten) in their kitchens.
Vegan, lactose and gluten free.
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Rich and robust dark single origin chocolate from Ecuador and has a high cocoa content, 85%. This fine chocolate is made from ethically sourced cocoa beans, and entirely produced in it’s country of origin. Produced in small batches from the Manabi region of Ecuador.
Environmentally friendly: Melt bars are completely plastic-free as we care about our environment and our oceans. Gift a pristine ocean to our children by reducing single-use plastic packaging – Melt has been at the vanguard of this movement for over 10 years.
This product has a 1-year shelf life.
Melt uses nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, soya, dairy and wheat (gluten) in all their kitchens.
Vegan, lactose and gluten free.
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Given the popularity of our slabs, we have decided to transform them into bars. Dark Chocolate with roasted hazelnuts. We hope you enjoy this nutty bar! Totally vegan too.
Plastic-free packaging as we care about the largest garden in the world – our oceans.May contain nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, soya, dairy and wheat.
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Classic & sophisticated dark chocolate bar with a smattering of candied orange, the dark chocolate is 70% min cocoa.
Environmentally friendly: Melt bars are completely plastic-free as we care about our environment and our oceans. Gift a pristine ocean to our children by reducing single-use plastic packaging – Melt has been at the vanguard of this movement for over 10 years.
This product has a 1-year shelf life.
Melt uses nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, wheat, soya and dairy in their kitchens.
Vegan, lactose and gluten free.
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This Qantu Chuncho 100% is a 100% bar made with cacao from the Ayacucho region of Peru. With no added sugar the bar provides a pure and more intense approach to this bean.
For their first collection, Maxime & Elfi of Qantu have focused on Peru. Inspired by Elfi’s heritage, they returned to the country where they had originally met. Starting off in Lima they visited Salon du Chocolat there in order to begin forging relationships with different producers. They then went on to visit a number of farmers and co-operatives to find their perfect beans.
For this particular bar, Qantu has worked with Asociacion de productores del VRAE. Though a relatively new producer, it has employed a specialist to help its farmers improve the agricultural techniques. Until recently the region where VRAE operates was victim to violence and the narcotics trade.
Chuncho is an ancient cacao varietal that is native to this particular part of Peru.The beans are especially small and therefore only need a very quick fermentation of about 3 days. This is done in wooden boxes after the cacao is dried in the sun. What they like in size, the beans make up for in flavour. Chuncho cacao is naturally mild with a multifaceted profile that makes it perfect for 100% bars
Crafting 100% chocolate is always difficult. On first we were amazed at the smoothness of the bar along with the flavours. We asked Qantu for more details on the process behind the bar:
“We do a medium roasting on this one to get similar notes to the chocolate they make in Cuzco for hot chocolate cups. In their case, they usually over-roast the beans, which we try to avoid. Acidity is very low in the Chuncho, no need to put a lot of heat during conching. Since it’s a 100%, there is more fat in it because there is no sugar, so chocolate is very liquid, we have hard time on the manual tempering/molding step. An automatic tempering machine would help a lot for this one, that will be our next purchase I think…”
While no sugar might make you think this bar would be bitter the chocolate is wonderfully mild. The smooth bar has gentle and creamy melt that slowly releases flavour. Plenty of fruit, apricot jam and mounds of hazelnuts all come through. The chocolate also reminded us slightly of a malted biscuit (but with far more depth).
