Auro - Dark chocolate 85% Mana - PHILIPPINES - 60g
Bean-to-Bar
Auro’s Reserve Collection is passionately crafted from the finest beans of a single harvest to bring out the rare, distinctive characteristics of each community and their land. Mana is located in the lush tropical forests of Davao and its cacao gives this Auro - Dark chocolate 85% Mana notes of caramelized apple, rum, sweet banana & cashew apple.
Cacao mass (85% Philippines), Muscovado sugar
Cocoa farmer and chocolate maker
David Dela Serna has been one of Auro Chocolate's long-time partner farmers since the beginning. He takes care of 12 hectares of cacao farms in Tugbok District, Davao City with his family. He also grows other fruit trees with cacao such as pomelo and coconut. The Dela Serna Farm also help and support Field of Dreams Children’s Home, an orphanage for young children.
Auro Chocolate Auro Chocolate is an internationally-awarded premium tree-to-bar chocolate brand from the Philippines rooted in sustainability through direct-trade with Filipino farming communities. Auro finely crafts quality cacao beans, couverture ingredients and retail products using only the best ingredients to create bold and tropical flavors indicative of their origin. Kelly Go and Mark Ocampo are the Co-Founders and Managing Directors of Auro Chocolate. They both grew up in the Philippines and first met in Chicago over a decade ago. They are extremely passionate about all things chocolate and instantly bonded over their love of food and culture. Auro is committed to building fair and sustainable partnerships that empower farmers to continuously improve both yield and quality, while also striving to create a long-lasting social impact on their communities. They demonstrate this through the following steps:
- Purchasing the cacao beans with an additional 10-15% premium above the ICCO world market price that incentivizes quality and variety segregation while improving their income significantly.
- Auro’s cacao technicians conduct farm visits to provide better assistan... Read more ...