Guadalcanal 67% Chocolate, Soloman Isles, Chocolarder

This bar’s tasting notes are: Mango and pineapple melt into malty biscuits, coffee and notes of walnut. The cacao beans for this bar are grown by over 200 indigenous farmers on the island of Guadalcanal, making the most of the tropical climate and fertile, volcanic soil. The cacao is grown alongside coconut trees, root vegetables and hardwood, best using the local resources and ensuring sustainable agriculture. Some of the cocoa trees date back to 1980.
Total Weight: 70g.
Ingredients: Cocoa Beans, Unrefined Raw Sugar.
£8.50
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About the Producer

Chocolarder are a Cornish company who make small batches of bean to bar chocolate. The team take inspiration from ingredients on their doorstep such as Cornish honey and wild gorse flowers, and then use traditional techniques to craft the finest chocolate.

They work directly with cocoa farmers to ensure that a fair wage is paid for their work and product and guarantee that all the crops are organically grown and free from pesticides. All of the cocoa that goes into Chocolarder chocolate come from pods which are split and fermented at their place of origin so the farmers have a huge role in helping to attain the final flavour of the chocolate.

The raw sugar cane that Chocoalarder use is grown in Brazil as part of the Native’s Green Cane Project. This ensures a traditional harvest during which the cane is cut down while green rather than burnt down. This sees a lower yield but is significantly more sustainable and saves the habitats of innumerable animals, birds and insects.

Sustainability

Chocolarder have a number of governing principles: plastic free packaging, slavery free and fairly traded ingredients direct from farmers, palm oil free and emulsifier free products, and supporting reforestation projects around the globe.

There are no artificial ingredients in Chocolarder chocolate and only the best natural ingredients are selected, in the most eco conscious way possible.

Chocolarder use cocoa beans grown by charity projects. This means huge efforts are going into saving rainforests and their inhabitants, and funds and resources are given to farmers who are specifically working to preserve rainforests in Peru and Sierra Leone.