70% Tuao (Tree To Bar)

Description

This special release marks our first ever, official batch of Tree-To-Bar chocolate, crafted from single estate cacao beans that we personally harvested, fermented, and dried with our farming partners at the source in Tuao a town in the northern Philippine province of Cagayan.

Each cacao pod and bean was meticulously inspected and fermented in custom boxes made from the wood of the Northern Philippine Santol (Cotton Fruit) tree. The cacao was then brought back to Vancouver where it was roasted, winnowed, conched, and molded into chocolate bars, giving it notes of ripe banana, green apple, and grape must.

The cover art features a watercolor design of the Cagayan River (Río Grande de Cagayán), the longest and largest river in the Philippines, which has sustained various tribes in Northern Luzon for centuries.

Special thanks and lots of love to our friends in Tuao and Tuguegarao: Ma’am Charo, Tita Marlene, Sir Charlie, Sir Val, Sir Alfonso, Barack & Bap Bap.