Cuna de Piedra Mexican Cacao Dark Chocolate Bar

Mexico’s indigenous civilizations have shaped cacao culture. I am delighted to feature this exquisite 73% single-estate dark chocolate bar from Cuna de Piedra made with fine flavor Mexican heirloom cacao. I was struck by the beauty of this bar when I first encountered it. The aesthetic is modern and elegant (check out the outer packaging and inner foil), and the flavor is both sumptuous and seductive. An ever-so-slight essence of black pepper unfolds in the greeting notes, transitioning into kumquat and sour cherry. The finishing notes are bright and intoxicating, almost honey-like. It’s hard to define this bar but it’s really easy to eat it! That said, it is very polished and impressive. A little bit is most satisfying and goes a long way!  Cuna de Piedra works with precious cacao beans that hail not just from a single origin, but from a single estate. For this particular Comalcalco, Tabasco bar, Malaquías harvests the beans from his small finca or farm, where several hundred cacao tr