Acopio dark chocolate · 76% bean-to-bar

Close-up of a MOOJO dark chocolate bar on a bed of beans · Guatemala Acopio

The terroir

Cahabón, Alta Verapaz. A shared post-harvest centre, opened in 2022, where the small harvests of the communities become a consistent cacao.

Origin Acopio

Country Guatemala

Terroir Cahabón, post-harvest centre

Harvest October - February

Fermentation At the community centre · in Cahabón

Roasting Lightly roasted

Tasting notes

Fruity · Sweet spice · Nutty / Praline

Texture

Ample & warm

Cultivar

Fino de Aroma

Recommended dose

1 to 2 squares (5-10 g) per tasting

€9,00

Size: 1 bar

1 bar 3 bars 5 bars

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Ingrédients & valeurs nutritionnelles

Cocoa mass*, cane sugar, cocoa butter*. *from organic farming. Cocoa: 76% minimum.

Valeurs moyennes pour 100 g
Énergie	2440 kJ / 589 kcal
Matières grasses	45,8 g
dont acides gras saturés	27,8 g
Glucides	40,2 g
dont sucres	17,1 g
Fibres alimentaires	11,7 g
Protéines	9,9 g
Sel	< 0,013 g

May contain traces of nuts. Made in a workshop that also handles other nuts.

Guatemala · Acopio · Dark chocolate1 bar

€9,00

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Territory

The word Cahabón, taken three times

Before 1543, this place was called Chik'ajb'om. It now bears the name of the river that runs through it, and that name, in Q'eqchi', means the land that paints. The Cahabón is born in the Sierra de las Minas at sixteen hundred metres, runs one hundred and ninety-six kilometres, disappears under the caves of Lanquín, comes out again, passes here at two hundred metres of altitude, and joins the Polochic then Lake Izabal. Santa María Cahabón has sixty-four thousand nine hundred and eleven inhabitants, of whom about ninety-five per cent are Q'eqchi' Maya. The post-harvest centre opened in 2022. It bears the name of the river, like the municipality, like the lot.

Peoples

What one gives to the mountain for the right to plant

Among the Q'eqchi', the tzuultaq'a are not images: they are persons. They have names, characters, wants, and they appear as caves, springs, mountains, rocks, lakes. They are the owners of the land, and their permission is needed to plant there, to harvest, to build, to live. It is asked through a ceremony, the majejak, in which one burns sugar, incense, candles of several colours, rosemary, a chicken, and chocolate. Cacao did not arrive here as a cash crop to which a meaning is added afterwards. It is one of the things one gives to the mountain. In 1877, a decree abolished all communal ownership of land in Guatemala; from 1889, Q'eqchi' families were leaving for Belize. The Cahabón centre does not give the land back. It puts back in common what comes from each plot, and that is already a gesture the country had lost.

River set deep in the forest, Cahabón, Alta Verapaz

The river, at Cahabón

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The terroir

Guatemala · Acopio · Dark chocolate

The word Cahabón, taken three times

What one gives to the mountain for the right to plant

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