Luxury chocolates
Luxury dark chocolates
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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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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).
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To’ak’s first ever 100% cacao bar has become an office favorite. Surprisingly light, with a hint of sweetness, it reminds us of an 80% bar.
In 2016 the valley of Piedra de Plata experienced the torrential rains of El Niño followed by an unexpected drought during the critical ripening period, and top it off an unusually late harvest was forced by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. This is single-origin 100% Ecuadorian dark chocolate at its finest.
To’ak signature series.
Nose: Berries, floral, forest floor.
Palate: Floral, berries, mint, red wine, forest floor.
Finish: Sweet floral berries and tannic red wine.
Variety: Heirloom Nacional
Vegan, lactose and gluten free.
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Start with heirloom Nacional cacao from Piedra de Plata, add torrential El Niño rains followed by an unexpected drought during the critical ripening period, and top it off with an unusually late harvest forced by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Single-origin Ecuadorian dark chocolate at its most complex.
To’ak origin series.
Nose: Wood with a touch of flowers.
Palate: Ripe banana, mint/eucalyptus, earthy red fruits.
Finish: Muscular, enigmatic, highly complex.
Variety: Heirloom Nacional
Vegan. gluten and lactose free.
Can be purchased only on preorder!
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Palo Santo wood, renowned for its fragrant essential oils, is actually native to the forests of coastal Ecuador. It grows wild in the very same province in which To’ak was born. Our most fragrant edition of To’ak chocolate aged with this powerfully aromatic wood = profoundly exotic flavor profile, to say the least…
To’ak origin series.
Nose: Citrusy pine, touch of mint.
Palate: Opens with sweet resinous wood, mint and lemon peel with the suggestion of clove enter on the mid-palate, stewed dates and fresh pine on the back-end.
Finish: Coffee, dates, and pine.
Vegan. gluten and lactose free.
Can be purchased only on preorder!
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Drink Ecuador’s finest heirloom and single origin cacao, any time you want. It’s an antioxidant-rich opportunity to power your day with the clean energy of theobromine, which is caffeine’s steadier and more dynamic cousin. Lots of options for preparation, ranging from brewed cacao, cacao latte, or added to your morning smoothie or coffee.
Crafted in Ecuador from the rarest variety on earth. Experience aromas of red fruits, earthiness and flowers.
Plenty of options. Use a French Press to brew cacao instead of (or with) coffee. Or simply add a scoop of T.cacao powder to your morning smoothie or coffee. For a cacao latte, combine with milk, non-dairy plant milk, or water. On a ketogenic diet? Add coconut oil, MCT oil, or grass-fed butter.
Vegan, lactose and gluten free.
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Start with heirloom Nacional cacao from Piedra de Plata, add torrential El Niño rains followed by an unexpected drought during the critical ripening period, and top it off with an unusually late harvest forced by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Single-origin Ecuadorian dark chocolate at its most complex.
To’ak signature series.
Nose: Wood with a touch of flowers.
Palate: Ripe banana, mint/eucalyptus, earthy red fruits.
Finish: Muscular, enigmatic, highly complex.
Variety: Heirloom Nacional
Vegan. gluten and lactose free.
