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80% Belize, Maya Mountain - Dark Chocolate Easter Egg
£40.00
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The 80% Maya Mountain is our newest dark chocolate and has already become one of our favourites! Nutty and chocolatey to begin and notes of tropical flavours including pineapple, honey, ginger and passion fruit. It's complex and rich, yet bright and exciting, with a long lasting finish.
About the cacao:
Founded in 2010, this centralized fermentation put Belize on the craft chocolate map as a pioneer in the social enterprise model.
The country’s first exporter of high-quality, centrally fermented cacao to the U.S. Today, they work with 420 smallholder farming families in the Toledo and South Stann Creek districts. Most of these producers are Q’eqchi’ and Mopan Maya, for whom cacao production goes back generations.
Maya Mountain Cacao’s 100% Belizean Maya team processes all cacao at a centralized facility where three unique stages of sun drying create optimal flavour. Maya Mountain Cacao is focused on building long-term, transparent partnerships with farmers and producing uniquely delicious cacao that supports the communities of southern Belize.
Terroir:
Belize’s rich history of cacao production, combined with the country’s stunning limestone karstic landscape and lowland tropical rainforest, created the perfect storm of flavour that was waiting to be fine-tuned through centralized post-harvest. While ancient criollo can still be found deep in Belize’s nature reserves and small private plots, the vast majority of cacao cultivated by the smallholder Maya farmers in the south are Amelonado-dominant hybrids and other Upper Amazon Forastero hybrids. Maya Mountain Cacao is intercropped with hardwood trees, banana, mango, avocado, and coconut.
2023 Maya Mountain Farmgate price $3.31 USD
This is the actual price paid to the cacao producer for their product (typically on a per kg or per lb basis) when they sell it to the first buyer.
Farmgate price is often paid for "wet" or fresh cacao, recently harvested and scooped out of cracked pods for sale. Wet cacao loses 60-70% of its weight during fermentation and drying, typically reaching 7-8% humidity before it is sold.
About the cacao:
Founded in 2010, this centralized fermentation put Belize on the craft chocolate map as a pioneer in the social enterprise model.
The country’s first exporter of high-quality, centrally fermented cacao to the U.S. Today, they work with 420 smallholder farming families in the Toledo and South Stann Creek districts. Most of these producers are Q’eqchi’ and Mopan Maya, for whom cacao production goes back generations.
Maya Mountain Cacao’s 100% Belizean Maya team processes all cacao at a centralized facility where three unique stages of sun drying create optimal flavour. Maya Mountain Cacao is focused on building long-term, transparent partnerships with farmers and producing uniquely delicious cacao that supports the communities of southern Belize.
Terroir:
Belize’s rich history of cacao production, combined with the country’s stunning limestone karstic landscape and lowland tropical rainforest, created the perfect storm of flavour that was waiting to be fine-tuned through centralized post-harvest. While ancient criollo can still be found deep in Belize’s nature reserves and small private plots, the vast majority of cacao cultivated by the smallholder Maya farmers in the south are Amelonado-dominant hybrids and other Upper Amazon Forastero hybrids. Maya Mountain Cacao is intercropped with hardwood trees, banana, mango, avocado, and coconut.
2023 Maya Mountain Farmgate price $3.31 USD
This is the actual price paid to the cacao producer for their product (typically on a per kg or per lb basis) when they sell it to the first buyer.
Farmgate price is often paid for "wet" or fresh cacao, recently harvested and scooped out of cracked pods for sale. Wet cacao loses 60-70% of its weight during fermentation and drying, typically reaching 7-8% humidity before it is sold.
