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The history of cocoa in the Caribbean is as complex and bittersweet as your favorite dark chocolate, for as European colonization spread throughout the Americas, so did cocoa cultivation and slavery. Indigenous to Central and South America, Theobroma Cacao, the tree that produces the seed from which chocolate is made, grows only in the tropics about 20 degrees north and south of the Equator. As the popularity of chocolate grew in Europe, so did the cocoa plantations in the Caribbean.
Our bean-to-bar craft chocolate is made exclusively from select fine flavor Trinitario cacao/cocoa beans from the Caribbean islands of Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad. Only about 12% of cocoa beans used for chocolate are classified as fine flavor, meaning these premium beans have a complex and unique flavor and aroma profile.
We work directly with growers and in the case of our Trinidad beans from the Rio Claro Fermentary, we buy from a US broker who partners directly with farmers.
GRENADA
- BELMONT ESTATE
- CRAYFISH BAY ORGANICS
JAMAICA
SEED of LIFE FARM
TRINIDAD
- RIO CLARO FERMENTARY
- CHARAMAL ESTATE
RIO CLARO ESTATE
CRAYFISH BAY ORGANICS
SEED of LIFE FARM
BELMONT ESTATE
CHARAMAL ESTATE
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