Mexico - Finca la Rioja 'Don Moisés' 70% (10 bars)

Mexico - Finca la Rioja 'Don Moisés' 70% (10 bars)Krak Mexico, Don Moiss 2023 Dark chocolate 70% Origin: Mexico, Chiapas, Cacahoutn genetics: Pentgona, Lagarto and other old (Criollo)varieties Nano lot: 240kg. Awards: Gold, Academy of Chocolate 2023As a pastry chef I was using chocolate as an ingredient. As a chocolatemaker(2013) I started to understand what a luxury product cocoa is. Being in charge of selecting, roasting and refining cocoa beans into chocolate I learned to work with the flavors

This variety was then named "Chumphon 1 hybrid" in honor of its origins and its potential in the Chumphon region

And the descendants from the oldest genetics where “Don Moisés” started his plantation a decade ago

Belize and Guatemala which he further developed in his nursery

a great portion of the plantation and the nurseries of Don Moisés  were expropriated

Winner “The Golden Bean Award 2021” Academy of Chocolate

as they come from the Ottange Farm

As a chocolatemaker(2013) I started to understand what a luxury product cocoa is

the Ramanandraibe family

The Kilombero Valley

they imported an extra 10 varieties from the University of Reading in the UK to explore the possibility of growing cocoa alongside coconut trees

lagarto and other criollo varieties is of approximately 70-

located in northwestern Madagascar in the Sambirano Valley