Shattell - Dark chocolate 70% Chuncho with pink Maras salt - PERU - 60g
Bean-to-Bar
Dark Shattell chocolate bar with 70% Chuncho cocoa with Maras Pink Salt. Chuncho beans are known for their complex, rich flavors.
The pink salt in this bar comes from Maras, a town located 3’300 meters above sea level in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, in the Peruvian Andes near Machupicchu. Maras salt is known as one of the healthiest and most nutritious salts on the planet.
Cacao mass (65% Peru), cane sugar, cacao butter, salt
Cocoa farmer and chocolate maker
With the support of international cooperation with USAID funds and through the Alternative Development Program, in 2000 the company called Cacao Vrae S.A. was established with the aim of marketing cocoa beans produced by 410 member families. Currently, Cacao Vrae S.A. is exploring the possibility of changing its organizational model and becoming a Cooperative.
In the first year, the company managed to collect and market cocoa domestically and since 2001, they have been supplying cocoa to the European market as well. For a little over two decades, with the support of national and international cooperation, the VRAE Cocoa Producers Association has accumulated experience and knowledge and has kept producing and marketing organic cocoa.
Shattell Chocolate Shattell is an artisan chocolate factory founded in 2009 in Lima, Peru by visionary entrepreneur and expert chocolatier, Lisi Montoya. Lisi launched Shattell with the vision to make high quality chocolate with the finest native cocoa beans from the Peruvian Amazon. Peruvian cocoa beans are world-renowned and are popular with some of the most famous chocolate brands in Europe, Asia, and North America. However, until just recently, there wasn’t a strong representation for Peruvian chocolate made with Peruvian cacao. This realization, combined with Lisi’s deep love for chocolate, were the driving forces that led her to learn more about the art and science of chocolate making and eventually launch Shattell. Since Shattell’s beginnings, Lisi has had the opportunity to work with amazing Peruvian cacao farmers and build a team of talented chocolatiers, to not only make world-class chocolate but also to share the treasure of Peruvian-made dark chocolate with the rest of the world. The brand’s philosophy is that great chocolate is born in the field and starts with the best quality cacao beans. They go above and beyond to build strong and lasting relationships with the cacao...
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