Milk Chocolate Peru San Martin 51% 100g

Have you ever tried chocolate from the San Martín region in Peru? This cacao is so beautiful 🤎🍫
San Martín is located right in the Peruvian Amazon, and they grow some of the best fine-flavor cacao in the entire world.
The flavors are completely different from ordinary supermarket chocolate. Because of the rich soil and the tropical climate, the beans naturally taste vibrant, sweet, and have subtle hints of warm spices. It is super smooth, rich, and not bitter at all.

What makes it even better is the story behind it. For a long time, this region struggled with illegal crops. Today, local farming families have completely transformed the area into sustainable cacao forests. By choosing this cacao, people are actually helping protect the Amazon rainforest and supporting fair wages for local families.

The beans are fermented and dried on-site to lock in their unique flavor before traveling to my workshop. Once they arrive, I roast, winnow, and stone-grind them for up to three days. I only add enough sugar to perfectly complement the natural character of the bean.

This chocolate was ground for 36 hours in a stone grinder, then left to rest for a few weeks. It is then tempered and made into bars. As with most of our bars, it is a limited edition.

If you’d like to know more I’m always happy for chocolate chats so do pop by on a market day!

We are at Rotterdamse Oogst Markt every last Saturday of the month and at other farmers markets (dates vary, keep an eye out on the website or via social media for more dates!) throughout the year

Have a lovely day!