Name: Club des explorateurs #205 : ÉQUATEUR
Brand: Milou Chocolate Co.
SKU: EX-ECUADOR
Price: 36.04 CAD
Availability: InStock

Club des explorateurs #205 : ÉQUATEUR

La géographie variée de l'Équateur comprend La Costa (la côte) avec ses terres fertiles et ses vastes plantations de bananes ; La Sierra (les hautes terres), où les cultures traditionnelles comme les pommes de terre et le quinoa sont cultivées près des sommets enneigés des Andes ; et La Amazonía, qui englobe la jungle amazonienne et les régions habitées par des tribus indigènes conservant un mode de vie traditionnel. Le sol volcanique des zones côtières et amazoniennes est idéal pour la culture du cacao. Bien qu'il ne contribue qu'à 4 % de la production mondiale de cacao, l'Équateur fournit 70 % du cacao fin du monde. La variété Arriba Nacional, une variété endémique de Criollo, est réputée pour ses notes florales et fruitées et est cultivée depuis plus de 3 500 ans.

$36.04

$40.04

Club des explorateurs #205 : ÉQUATEUR

$36.04

$40.04

HEINDE & VERRE PEARL OF ECUADOR DARK 71%

Pays du producteur : The Netherlands
Cacao : Direct Source, Single Estate
Poids : 70 g

This single estate bar comes from Hacienda Victoria, founded in 2009 by Carlos Eduardo García Fuentes. He has partnered with the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP) to restore production of certified National Arriba cacao, the ancient variety of Ecuador. He also works with the Rainforest Alliance to ensure the farm is certifiably sustainable and socially responsible. Not cutting corners pays off, as evidenced by this bar's full, rich, well-rounded profile. It offers plenty of roast and coffee-like notes but tannins are tempered by a cocoa liqueur-like sweetness that creates a kind of hot fudge sundae flavour. This offering fully embodies the essence of what chocolate should be.

PUMP STREET HACIENDA LIMON ECUADOR 85%

Pays du producteur : England
Cacao : Direct Source, Single Estate
Poids : 70 g

This bar is crafted from designated status Nacional Arriba cocoa sourced from Hacienda Limon farm on the Guantupi River in Ecuador. Samuel von Rütte, his wife Anita and four other families manage this 110-hectare plantation using sustainable farming practices, avoiding insecticides and fungicides entirely and using herbicides only in specific, targeted applications. The chocolate blends unrelenting espresso-like tannin with flavours of toasted bread crust, graham cracker, and hints of jasmine and blackberry. It's a big character bar that lives up to its high percentage.

KASAMA COSTA ESMERALDAS ECUADOR 70%

Pays du producteur : Canada
Cacao : Direct Source, Single Estate
Poids : 55 g

The beans for this bar come from a family owned and operated farm in northern Ecuador. They grow on lush hills overlooking the ocean in a beautiful, beach-laden part of the country appropriately named Costa Esmeraldas (the Emerald Coast). ‘Arriba Nacional’ cacao has been coveted for centuries (millennia even!) and is called 'the pride of Ecuador'. It's easy to understand why - this chocolate is smoooooooooth and marries blackberry and cherry fruit flavours with bourbon-y notes of vanilla, oak, dark butterscotch and roasty char. Despite the robust flavours the bar maintains a fresh, fruity approachability and silky-smooth tannins.