Giff's Criollo 65% Dark Milk Dark Chocolate cocoa butter

cocoa butter

Tanzania 100%

really only accessible by boat

These neighboring family farms work contiguous patches of land and team up together to send the beans to Sirene with a caramel-y fudge richness

Rich Maple-caramel notes on this beautiful bean from Lachua

Giff's Criollo 65% Dark Milk Dark Chocolate cocoa butterOne of chocolates most popular stories is that Criollo is the cultivated one, Forastero the wild one and Trinitario is their love child. This is bunkum. Criollo is just one of 18 or more distinct cultivars Theobroma cacao has. Giff Laube has painstakingly tracked down many criollo from backyards or neglected plots of land and his orchard in Nicaragua is growing DNA confirmed trees producing beans with a mild and really interesting nutty flavour (but