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asochivite with maple
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Monica at cacao verapaz in Guatemala
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cacao pods in san juan chivite, guatemala, goodnow farms chocolate
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Marlon Pangan of Cacao Verapaz (wearing a Goodnow Farms hat!) explains where to place the new organic drying area signs to Gerber. This is the first time Asochivite will have certified organic beans!
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Asochivite with Maple

  • 2018 Academy of Chocolate Awards, Bronze
  • 2018 International Chocolate Awards, World, Alternative Sugar, Silver
  • 2018 International Chocolate Awards, Americas, Alternative Sugar, Silver

To craft this World-Final-Winning bar we start with our directly sourced Asochivite cacao and add locally made maple sugar from Severance Maple in Northfield, MA.

Milt Severance harvests maple sap from trees on his property, as well as the surrounding area, and then granulates it in his own evaporator.  We tried many difference maple sugars before choosing Milt’s, and its robust maple flavor is the perfect complement to the bright, fruity flavors for the Asochivite cacao.

We source the beans for this bar from the Q’eqchi Maya farmers of San Juan Chivite, Guatemala, who harvest the cacao fruit from wild trees surrounding their village.  They also ferment and dry their own beans at tow different facilities they built in their village, which allows them to carefully control the fermentation and drying process.

This bar is crafted with freshly pressed Asochivite cocoa butter for 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.

For more information about the cacao we use for this bar check out our Asochivite page.

For more information on fine flavor cacao, our personal approach to direct sourcing and our unique chocolate making process please visit our Fine Cacao, Our Chocolate and Our Process pages.

Tasting notes:  This bar has delightfully bright fruit flavors of green banana and mango, with the sweet taste of dark maple syrup.  Think French toast!

Collections:  This bar can also be found in The Complete Collection, The World Finals Winners Collection and The Inclusion Bundle.

 Pairings:  For cheese pairing selections please visit our Tastings & Pairings page.

Guatemala, 70% Cacao, 55g Bar

$14.00

Ingredients: Cacao Beans, Maple Sugar, Fresh Pressed Cocoa Butter
Soy Free, Gluten Free, Not Alkalized, No Lecithin, Vegan

Customer Reviews

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T
The Chocolate Ambassador
Maple Sugar Dark Chocolate

The chocolate bar looks perfect, and it is well tempered. The texture is smooth and creamy. On the palate, the maple sugar flavor is straightforward delivering its characteristic sweet caramelized nuttiness. Following, you can detect tropical fruitiness such as creamy mango, sour yet floral white peach, floral, green banana subtle "unripe" sweetness. The distinctive quality of this tasting experience is the MYRCENE presence on the nose and on the palate. Myrcene is a terpene that gives to cannabis a mild sweet flavor profile that you can find in mangoes, too. In this case, the charming herbaceous aroma is immediate with musky softness followed by a slight earthy bitterness and a light touch of vanilla. Fantastic complexity!

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Alan Millner
Just enough maple

The Asochivite chocolate is just great all by itself, so I was hesitant to try it with an additive. But the maple is just a subtle addition that integrates perfectly with the main flavor. What a treat!

T
The Chocolate Ambassador
Asochivite with Maple

Sadly, I did not try their Asochivite Guatemala 77%. Therefore, I have no basis for comparison but this inclusion is good.

Needless to say, the chocolate bar looks perfect, and it is well tempered. The texture is smooth and creamy.

On the palate, the maple sugar flavor is straightforward delivering its characteristic
sweet caramelized nuttiness. Following, you can detect tropical fruitiness such as creamy mango, sour yet floral white peach, green banana subtle "unripe" sweetness

The distinctive quality of this tasting experience is the MYRCENE presence on the nose and on the palate.

Myrcene is a terpene that gives to cannabis a mild sweet flavor profile that you can find in mangoes, too. In this case, the charming herbaceous aroma is immediate with musky softness followed by a slight earthy bitterness and a light touch of vanilla.

Fantastic!

C
Christine
Beyond Divine

Definitely one of the best chocolates bars I’ve had in a long time, and I work at a chocolate company in New England that shall remain un-named!

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Jane of Walking Feat Quilts
The Title fits perfectly as The Flavor Notes are so unique that you want them to last for as long...

I love, love this bar as it has a Taste that invites you in to a point that you want the flavor to last forever!! I also love that on our Tour that I got to have one of the taste samples,& I just wish that WE your followers could be able to purchase them as well as I thoroughly enjoyed that little morsel!!!!!

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