The Hacienda Victoria in Ecuador produces wonderful Arriba cacao. This 100% cocoa bar is strong, as you would expect for a bar without any sugar or other ingredients. The acids remain discreetly in the background, long and with a fine melting.
“Casa Cacao” is more than just a manufactory for exceptional chocolate – it is also a hotel and café. In Girona, near Barcelona, Jordi Roca and his team have been producing exquisite chocolates since 2018. Casa Cacao sources the cocoa directly from the producers and endeavours to reflect the full richness of a cocoa bean in its chocolates. “Each origin, each producer, each batch, each production shows one of the thousand faces that make up the life of cocoa: the soil in which it has grown, the climate that has determined its life, the producer’s work on the soil and on the plant, or the different processing after harvesting, especially during the fermentation and drying phases.”
