Piedra de Plata 70% Dark Chocolate Aged in Palo Santo wood - Manabi, Ecuador

  2021 Harvest All organic ingredients - Single Estate - Direct Trade - Bean-to-Bar Provenance: Cantón Bolívar, Manabí, EcuadorPiedra de Plata is a provenance that has captivated the luxury chocolate market. We were able to obtain cocoa beans from a cousin from the area and made some truly outstanding  bars. Before making the bars, we aged the refined chocolate in a palo santo chamber for 1 year to impart pine and minty notes to the chocolate. This process made the chocolate a bit creamy due to the exposure to the light humidity of the wood. The finished bars are then stored in an air tight container with palo santo to give them a wonderful, deep resin fragrance and taste coating. Our tasting Notes: Aromas: Sweet banana, vanilla, coconut and cinnamon.Flavors: Banana pudding flavors at first, opening up to mellow bitterness that turns into rich chocolatey flavors with dried berries notes. Finish: Mocha, vanilla, faint coconut and dried berries. Ingredients: Heirloom Cacao Nacional beans