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Don the Beachcomber

€12,50
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Don the Beachcomber

75% West Papua Ransiki
Tasting notes: maracujá and mango

Don the Beachcomber chocolate bar is a tribute to Donn Beach, the creator of tiki cocktails. While tiki drinks are often associated with faraway islands, they actually trace their roots to Hollywood, where Donn Beach created a vibrant escape for VIPs looking to indulge in the exotic. Much like his cocktails, this chocolate bar is a celebration of tropical cocoa, designed to transport your tastebuds to sun-drenched beaches and lush landscapes.

Artwork cover by Beatrice Olimpia Bonato

50g

In stock
€12,50
€12,50
Taxes included.
Ingredients and General Information

Ingredients:
75% Cocoa Beans, 25% Cane Sugar.
Just the essentials. (Yes, of course it's vegan)

Storage Instructions:
Keep in a cool, dry place.

Allergen Information:
While this product contains only two ingredients, it is made in a facility that also processes milk, soy, nuts, and gluten. We do our best to avoid cross-contamination but we can't ensure that none happens.

Nutrition facts for 100g:
Energy: 533kcal/2230kJ
Total fat: 38g
of which saturated: 25g
Carbohydrates: 38g
of which sugar: 25g
Protein: 10g
Salt: 0.02g

Nerdy things

Cocoa cultivation was introduced in 1950 and enjoyed a healthy and large production during its heydays. However due to a combination of ownership changes and a lack of investments it significantly downsized.
With the help of local stake holders, the Ebier Suth ('Unity to Arise') Cokran Cooperative was established and rehabilitated almost 300 hectares creating much-needed jobs in the community. The majority of the senior team now has over 30 years of experience working on the plantation, and they work implementing an Agroforestry system.

  • Harvest: 2024
  • Harvest season: May-January
  • Fermentation: 6 days, two-tiered wooden boxes
  • Drying: 6 days
  • Variety: Amazon Amelonado, Trinitario
  • Farmers :Cooperative with 124 members
The artist behind the cover

Beatrice Olimpia Bonato

Italian-born photographer and creative based in Geneva, Switzerland.

After graduating from NABA (New academy of fine arts in Milan) in 2015, I have worked as an art director for advertising and fashion for 9 years, while carrying on personal projects and collaborating with magazines.

My conceptual approach to image making (both static and video) exploits different tools and media, from y2k devices to projections to modern cameras.

Nowadays I chose digital photography as my first mean of expression.

My imagination recalls an aspiration to flânerie and a sort of emotional voyeurism, often with a digital and oneiric twist.


ig: @vildraev
beatriceolimpia.com

SHIPPING INFORMATION

DELIVERY

  • Within ITALY it takes 2-3 working days since the shipment
  • EU 5-7 working days
  • WORLDWIDE 9-10 working days

COSTS

Shipping varies depending on the location it needs to be shipped to:

  • In ITALY we charge 6€ of shipping free up to 35€ order, afterwards it is FREE.
  • In EUROPE we charge 10€ of shipping free up to 50€ order, afterwards it is FREE.
  • For the rest of the WORLD shipping free varies but we offer them FREE after a 50€ order.

Rough review

The cocoa in this chocolate is Amazonian Forastero, a variety that has often been overlooked in favor of Criollo. This bar proves that when a Forastero is carefully handled during fermentation and drying, it can develop an aromatic complexity equal to (if not greater than) that of its more celebrated counterpart. Proudly part of the Forastero team!

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do you source your cocoa?

We rely on thrusted importers that share the same vision of human rights, transparency and quality: ruvido is the result of hundreds of people, picking, processing, sorting, importing the product.

We are the last step of a chain and as such is our duty to show respect to those before us doing the best we can do present to you the best chocolate possible.

Why you choose to have just one a time single drop?

We think it is to important to underline how each cocoa is special and unique in itself. Even same plants and terroir will produce beans that taste slightly different each years influenced by both the climate of that year as well as any difference in temperature during fermentation.

Blending beans or working big volumes flatten high notes flavours that are the ones we sought after and that truly makes chocolate taste so differentL

For this reasons we decided to work low volume single drop in order to highlight how special each cocoa it is and make it shine.

How many bars do you produce for each drop?

It depends on how much was produced of the specific cocoa, the period of the year and our capabilty of processing volumes of cocoa .

Right now each drop is around 1.000 bars that it means one single sack of cocoa beans. In future we don't want to exceed 4.000 bars for each drop in order to respect the flavor of the specific beans.

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