Name: Heinde & Verre Smooth Piura Peru Milk 61%
Brand: Heinde & Verre
SKU: HV-217
Price: 14.49 CAD
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Heinde & Verre Smooth Piura Peru Milk 61%

Cocoa Origin: Peru
Producer Country: Netherlands
Weight: 70 g

Norandino is an agricultural cooperative that spans northern Peru, specializing in crops like coffee and cacao. They sourced these beans from the villages Palmas, Puerta Palache and Las Lomas in the San Lorenzo Valley, both in the Piura Valley. The terroir here is unique: it's essentially a dry forest with just a few months of rain in the year, so farmers use water from the Andes mountains to keep the trees hydrated. The beans are unique too: Piura Blanco is a rare albino mutation that began evolving around the Sechura desert at least 1000 years ago. White cacaos like the Piura Blanco only make up around 0.1 percent of the world's harvest and aren't commonly used for milk chocolate. In this bar, the beans' fruity, light profile is both contrasted and complimented by the sweet/tart flavour of the milk. The texture is smooth as butter, with a nutty, creamy lingering aftertaste and delicious nougat-y, praline-like flavour. Mmmm...

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Heinde & Verre Smooth Piura Peru Milk 61%

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Heinde & Verre, meaning "near and far," pays homage to the Dutch culinary tradition of sourcing ingredients worldwide and combining them with local customs, perfectly reflecting Milou’s belief in the synergy of global and local economies. The two guys behind the name, Jan-Willem & Ewald, are serious chocolate geeks and have developed several in-house techniques that make their bars standout: slow food level stuff like stone grinding for up to three days, aging their chocolate mass, sorting beans by hand, and split-roasting single origin beans into multiple batches, each receiving a unique roast profile, and then blending back together by taste. They use only traceable ingredients and work with trusted single estates and cooperatives. Their facility is a carbon-free, fully electric factory powered and heated by 100% Dutch green wind energy. And as if that wasn’t enough to love about them, just wait until you see the cleverness of their packaging, which includes kraft paper pouches with double airtight seal to protect against odors, light, humidity, and oxidation. The outside sticker states the name, farmer, and origin region, while unfolding the box reveals the H&D philosophy, a map showing ingredients and their origin, and a QR code linking to the story, tasting notes, farmer's photos, and other details of each bar, as well as nutritional value in four languages. As if that’s not good enough, each box comes with not one but two bars!

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Piura, situated in northwestern Peru and bordered by Ecuador to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the west, boasts South America's westernmost point and the lowest point in the Southern Tropics. Its unique geography is defined by the convergence of the cold Humboldt Current and warm El Niño Current, resulting in both tropical and arid conditions, exemplified by the Sechura Desert, one of the world’s few tropical deserts. The region features a diverse landscape, including savannah-like scrub, stunning beaches, and small valleys with typical tropical climates, ideal for rice and coconut cultivation. Piura has a rich cultural history, with the Yungas, Vicús, Mochicas, and Incas leaving their mark before the Spanish established Piura as their third city in South America. This rich history has fostered a vibrant mix of mestizo, creole, and indigenous cultures. The name Piura, meaning "abundance" in Quechuan, reflects its fertile lands, while its current nickname, "The city of eternal heat," underscores its consistently hot climate.

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