Our Ucayali bar recently won a 2023 Good Food award! The Good Food Awards celebrates exceptionally flavorful craft foods and also requires that each entry meets strict social and environmental sustainability standards. This is our sixth consecutive Good Food Awards winner! Previously this bar also won a Gold sofi award and Silver at the International Chocolate Awards World finals.
The cacao for this multiple award-winning origin comes from the jungles of Peru. It's named after the Ucayali river, one of the major headwaters of the Amazon, and the farmers living along its shores grow several varieties of fine flavor cacao. They bring the cacao on boats to our partners at Ucayali River Cacao, where the beans are expertly fermented and dried at their new facility. We've personally visited the fermentation and drying facility and have met many of the farmers.
We also freshly press the cocoa butter for this from the same Ucayali beans we use to make the chocolate, resulting in intense single origin flavor and exceptional smoothness. We’re one of the only chocolate makers in the country to press our own cocoa butter, and it makes a world of difference in flavor.
Tasting notes: This extremely well balanced bar is floral and herbal, with notes of lemon verbena and fig.
