Garçoa Guatemala Ana Maria 73% Bright Beans

This single variety chocolate is made from a single cocoa variety selected by the producers of Finca Ana Maria from a wild cocoa tree in the forest. The Tuuluxs variety gives the chocolate its characteristic light color and unique taste. Despite the light color of the chocolate, this chocolate is also made from just two ingredients: the finest cocoa beans and a little raw cane sugar.

Tastes creamy and mild, like malty caramel sweets and a hint of spring meadow.

This chocolate won bronze at the 2023 International Chocolate Awards in the category «Micro-Batch Plain/Origin Dark Chocolate Bars».

Organic chocolate with 73% cocoa content, 85g. Ingredients: cocoa beans and raw cane sugar. Can contain traces of almonds.

Nutritional value (per 100g): energy 2221 kJ (534 kcal), fat 39g, whereof saturates 22g, carbohydrates 32g, whereof sugar 28g, protein 9g, salt 0.04g.

Store in a cool, dry and dark place (not in the refrigerator).

Produced from bean to bar at the Garçoa manufactory in Zurich Wollishofen. Organic certification CH-BIO-038.

Garçoa is a young Swiss enterprise with a philosophy that does not seem to be all that different from ours. The big difference is they're not in coffee – but in chocolate. The whole process from bean to bar is done by Fränzi and her team in small batches. They start by selecting the cocoa by hand, then peel, roast and grind it, add some organic cane sugar and finally pour it into their individually created moulds. They refrain from using any additives. Thus, all the flavor in the chocolate bars comes straight from the cocoa beans and yet – or perhaps because of that – the bar are totally different from each other.

They started at home in their kitchen: cocoa beans were roasted in the oven, chopped up in a nut grinder, the skins were blown off with a hair dryer... at the beginning, everything was very inconvenient. And yet: at the end of the day there was always a delicious aroma in the air. Soon they were building sustainable trade chains for minimal quantities and experimenting with different sizes, thicknesses and surfaces for the bars – and of course, designing the beautiful packaging.