Sirene Alto Beni, Bolivia, 70%

Origin

• 🇧🇴 Bolivia

Tasting notes

These beans were the first cocoa beans designated certified “HeirloomHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown.” by the Heirloom Cacao Preservation Initiative (HCP). Grown in t he Alto Beni, Bolivia region and Volker provides to us are delicious. No other word for them. They are clean, well processed and the genetics of the trees themselves are fantastic. The chocolate has delicious flavours of deep fudge overlaid by dried fruit, honeyHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural. and coffee. Vegan--made with dehydrated cane sugar, so it doesn't contain the bone char that white sugar usually uses to remove the last bits of molasses to make it white. Ingredients: cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter. Made in a nut free facility, soy free, gluten free, milk free (though made in a facility that used milk powder so may contain traces).