Original Beans - Arhuaco Chocolate 82% 2kg

Taste of Arhuaco 82%: tastes of liquorice and sesame blend as harmoniously in this chocolate from select-tribal Businchari cacao as the Arhuacos’ traditions to maintain nature’s balance.

One Bar: One Tree: Forced into the highlands for centuries by conquistadores, settlers and the coca wars, the Arhuaco indigeNous community has recently returned to their ancestral lands and sacred sites at the Caribbean shores of La Lengüete. Here, they are initiating the revival of a select tribal cacao culture that was almost extinguished hundreds of years ago when outsiders mistakenly thought a rare white cacao was infected and cut the trees. Luckily, some old cacao trees survived in the shade of the wilderness and the Arhuacos recently started to harvest their precious cacaos again. One they named “Businchari” which means “new beginning” – and that’s exactly how the Arhuaco view their work with Original Beans on the Arhuaco Businchari chocolate. Your purchase of the harmonious Arhuaco 82% helps strengthen this guardian culture and the pristine landscapes it.

"We are on a mission to grow the world’s taste for preserving nature. Since 2008, we venture into remote rainforests to feature the world’s rarest cacaos and transform the culture of chocolate, food and luxury. On our own we show that it’s possible to regenerate what we consume. Together, we can preserve nature in all its rarity. #Taste the rare and preserve it."Taste the Rare"Like other tree fruits, cacao is infused with flavours from the environment in which it grows. Its seeds—aka beans—are full of nutrition and when harvested, fermented and dried with craft,they reveal the unique characters of their distinct origins. Since 2008, our “Bean Team” travels into the rarest places on earth to bring original beans to you. Each of our beans has a story to tell. We invite you to taste them all."Preserve the RareTo make sure that cacao beans—and their rainforests—of distinction are safe from extinction we grow one tree for every bar sold. When you break off a piece of Original Beans chocolate, Not only are you a moment away from enjoying the earth’s rarest cacao beans in their purest form— you are breaking ground for a tree. Through our One Bar : One Tree programme, Original Beans customers and farmers have grown millions of trees to date.#OneBarOneTree"

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