This flavourful and versatile chocolate gives a warm feeling, especially combined with spices like cinnamon, clove and pepper. Combinations with red fruits like raspberry and black currants nicely lift up the acidity.
Peter Remmelzwaal
Owner of PR Patisserie
Flavour Details
Product details
A powerfully dynamic chocolate, starting with an intense cocoa flavour, with roasted, earthy, tobacco notes and a good clean bitterness. Moving to suggestions of black pepper, delicate orange, raisin and dried fruit flavours, it evolves beautifully into a herbal veggie finish, with a quiet farewell of honeylike sweetness. Once tasted, never forgotten.
Tempering curves
Type
Belgian dark chocolate dots
Packaging
Resealable
Weight
2.5kg
Best before
24 months
La coopérative Cocoa Okapi
Genetics
Forastero, Trinitario Hybrids
Other Crops
Plantain, coffee, rubber, vegetables
Terroir
Forêt tropicale humide - Savane 2 000 m d'altitude
Fermentation & Drying Process
El Salvador
Box fermentation in micro center
- Ideal for single haciendas
- Uniformity for big volumes
Pre-drying
- Gradual reduction of acidity
- Further color development
Drying
- Clean appearance
- Easier separation of husk
- Reduced acidity
- Slower speed for moisture reduction
- no risk for case hardening
Sourcing expertise and optimization of post-harvest processes
Veliche™ has identified the best beans in El Salvador and D.R. Congo and optimized the fermentation and drying processes to deliver exquisite and consistent taste profiles.
Traceable cocoa
Veliche™ offers signature origins chocolates that are made with cocoa coming from identified local cooperatives: Hacienda San José del Real de la Carrera in El Salvador and the Okapi Co-operative in D.R. Congo, to facilitate the connection between origin countries and artisans and to suppoert the brand efforts to improve farmers' living income
