Goodnow Farms - Limited Release Piura 70% Dark Chocolate - Peru
$ 20.00
Over a thousand years ago the ancestors of Peru's Puerta Pulache community left the Amazon basin with cacao beans and settled in the Piura region's Sechura desert river valley. Their descendants still cultivate these Piura Blanco beans, which boast a unique flavor. Natural notes of ripe raspberry, sweet cherry and honeyed pecan resound in the elegantly complex dark chocolate.
Thousands of years ago cacao originated in the vibrant and tropical Amazon basin. Local communities used the delicious cacao fruit and seeds in everyday life, so when they migrated to different areas they brought cacao along with them.
The ancestors of Peru’s Puerta Pulache community left the jungle basin, traveled west across the Andes mountains, and settled in the Piura region’s Sechura desert river valley. Not only did they introduce cacao as a species in this region, but they introduced a specific genetic type of cacao from the fruit they brought with them. Trees grew naturally from seeds, and for thousands of years the cacao was cultivated into what exists today.
The Piura cacao is truly unique and commonly referred to as "Piura Blanco." When you crack open a fresh fruit pod and look at the raw beans, about 1/3 of the beans are white, 1/3 are lavender and 1/3 are deep purple. These beans are not genetically “Criollo,” but instead closer to the Ecuador "Nacional" genetics, which makes sense as the borders of Peru and Ecuador meet in the Amazon basin where cacao originated.
There are many communities in the Piura region that have similar stories of ancestors migrating west from the Amazon basin and settling among the narrow river valleys, and many of them grow and process their own cacao. As each Piura community may have slightly different genetics, terroir, harvest, fermentation and drying practices, cacao origin flavors vary. That, of course, is the beauty of distinct, single origin cacao flavors.
Tasting Notes: Ripe raspberry, sweet cherry and honeyed pecan
Origin: Piura Valley, Peru
Ingredients: Single Origin Cacao Beans, Organic Cane Sugar, Single Origin Cocoa Butter
