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Rio Caribe Superior cacao grows in agroforestry, in which cacao trees are intercropped with other crops. This agricultural system promotes biodiversity and forms a buffer zone protecting remaining forests and the national park, Península de Paria Growing cacao helps to protect the natural environment while giving farmers an opportunity to earn an income. Venezuela Rio Caribe Superior is from Trinitario and Criollo varieties. The beans are low in acidity, and have an intense and strong chocolaty body with sweet, nutty and floral hints. Consistent application of protocols during harvest and postharvest results in an outstanding quality, labelled as ‘superior’. After manual picking, the farmers bring the wet beans to a central fermentation unit, where they are fermented for 6 or 7 days in wooding boxes, with controlled turning based on temperature.

Plateaux Region is renowned for its beautiful natural environment with tropical forests and natural waterfalls. However, tree cover has diminished considerably over the last decades, resulting in land degradation and loss of biodiversity. Forests were cut due to slash and burn agriculture. Also, wood is an important energy source most households cook their food on it. Interestingly, cacao and coffee cultivation is an important protection for Togolese forests. Farmers grow these crops traditionally under the canopy of natural forests, sometimes intercropped with other crops, a socalled agroforestry system. Because their livelihood depends on it, farmers have a big incentive not to cut down trees. On the contrary, they protect the forests from further degradation and – as a consequence – help to preserve biodiversity. This cacao has a fullbody with pleasant chocolate tones, low acidity, herbal and woody hints, and coconut and almond flavour notes.

For the past hundred years, almost all of the thousand Polynesian Vanilla growers have no longer prepared their own vanillas (drying); they pick them and sell them to the few preparers active in the territory. The result is that each preparer obtains vanilla from at least one hundred planters spread out over the entire archipelago. All of the vanilla from the various plantations and islands are thus mixed together and prepared at the same time. Once the notion of terroir was abandoned, the vanillas were no longer distinguishable. Only fruit which has reached full maturity(dark brown color) is selected, a selection process identical to that used with grapes for “Vendanges Tardives ” and the “Sélections grains nobles” fines Alsace wines. This very late harvesting process, unique in Polynesia, makes it possible to enhance the taste and aromatic qualities of Tahitian Vanilla.

This Tahitensis vanilla is the same species as the one found in French Polynesia. A singular aroma, so different from the others. A complex nose that starts with spicy notes, followed by floral, leather and earthy notes. Sourcing is difficult because the quality of the batches varies from one producer to another. Today, in the communities of the Sepik region, many people grow vanilla. The income generated by this activity allows the communities to build schools, hire teachers and repair bush roads. The community system allows for a more fluid management of the vanilla plantations but also for a better use of this new village economy. CHOCOLATE WITH SWEETENERS cocoa beans, cocoa butter, sweeteners inositol, erythritol, ribose, collagen, octanoic acid (coconut mct), vanilla pods (1%), sweetener thaumatin (katemfe fruit). Contains at least 60% cocoa ingredients.