77% includes 1% cocoa butter (that we make with the same beans)
23% organic sugarThe first cacao brought to Asia in 1600 was grown in the Philippines and we are the first chocolate maker to export Filipino cocoa beans in nearly twenty-five years. The beans used to make this tantalizing bar are very exclusive, making the Davao, Philippines chocolate bar uniquely exotic. There has never before been a single origin bar from the Philippines.
_Askinosie Chocolate is the first chocolate maker in the world to export our historic cocoa beans since the mid-1980_s. We are excited about [Askinosie_s] work with farmers so that people around the world can share in the taste of what our cocoa beans can produce.î
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Josephine Ramos of the Cacao Foundation of the Philippines._Dark and deep with a touch of toastiness, it_s dry like a full bodied well aged red wine. This bar is compelling in its own East Asian way.î
- Ari Weinzweig, Founder of the world famous Zingerman_s Deli
"If there were Oscars for Chocolate, this new bar would be nominated -- and would win! -- for "Best New Original Chocolate" hands down!...The Davao bar has a wonderful richness and intensity. It rewards the melt-in-your-mouth consumer (don't chew!) with deep forest flavors, with bacon fat and the type of earthiness occasionally found in rare, old, well-cared-for Cote Rotie wines from the northern Rhone."
-Jim White, Food Writer, napaman.com
"Here is a chocolate that is near a masterwork. Close to epitomizing what fine chocolate is all about, a true evolution of flavor unfolding across the palate - reminiscent of forest, affecting your body - flavors changing moods, then back again. Great length on the finish, with a lingering note of blackberry."
- Casey Meshbesher, Chocolate Note blog on the 77% Davao Dark Chocolate
