85% SINGLE-ORIGIN BAR

Wampu

Honduras

2020 HARVEST · By Senna
tasting notes: pralinė chocolate, lemon tea, honey

These beans come from communities around the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve in the Mosquitia region of Honduras. To craft this extra-dark bar, Dandelion Japan Chocolate Maker Senna roasts to bring out the 2020 harvest’s inherent fruitiness/

Our partners in Japan make chocolate that can be strikingly different from our American bars, although we all work with the same beans. We’ve found that the Japanese team enjoys highlighting fermented, roasted, bitter, and herbaceous flavors, whereas in San Francisco, we often lean toward fruity, creamy, and caramel notes.

INGREDIENTS & ALLERGENS

All of our single-origin chocolate is made with just cocoa beans and sugar; no added cocoa butter, lecithin, or vanilla. Our chocolate is free of soy, dairy, eggs, and gluten, and it is made in a factory that does not process nuts.

WEIGHT
2.0 oz (56 g)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Shelf life:

Stored properly, your bar will remain ready to enjoy for many months.

Vegan

Gluten Free

Nut Free

Soy Free

Two Ingredients

Direct Sourced

Dandelion Chocolate Japan Chocolate Bar Dandelion Chocolate Japan - Wampu, Honduras 85% 2020 Harvest Single-Origin Chocolate Bar
85% SINGLE-ORIGIN BAR
Wampu, Honduras 85%
pralinē chocolate, lemon tea, honey

About Wampu, Honduras

Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that cacao has been cultivated in this region of Honduras for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years. Today, producers must overcome obstacles in order to yield cocoa suitable for making outstanding chocolate. The region is so hot, humid, and remote that fermentation and drying, and even transportation, are extremely challenging.

To reach the village of Wampusirpi (affectionately called Wampu) from an international airport, a traveler must take two flights — first to Puerto Lempira on the northeast coast, and from there to Wampusirpi — or drive to Palestina, in Olancho, and cross the Patuca River in a pipante (a kind of hollowed-out log canoe), then traverse jungle for two days. In this remote locale, the team at Cacao Direct, led by Jorge Schmidt, have been working with approximately 200 Miskito families since 2014, providing them with technical assistance, training, information, and at-cost tools for planting and maintaining their cacao trees.

Cacao Direct buys organically grown cacao from individual farmers and families, then, to ensure bean quality, carefully ferments and dries it at a centralized facility built in 2015. The efforts have paid off: Cacao Direct won the Honduras Cocoa of Excellence Competition in 2016 (using the award's prize money to fund a new roof and windows for the local school), and 2017 (when there was no prize money, only glory!).

ABOUT DANDELION CHOCOLATE JAPAN

Japan team

We launched Dandelion Chocolate Japan in collaboration with Seiji Horibuchi in 2016. Seiji frequented our Valencia Street café and we developed an immediate rapport based on our shared love of chocolate. Seiji has an eye for detail and boundless energy, and we loved our conversations together. He proposed taking our chocolate international by building a new factory in Kuramae, old Tokyo — an area known for artisan workshops and a craft culture.

For more about Dandelion Chocolate Japan, we invite you to visit our blog.

David at 16th Street Factory

David foils chocolate bars at the 16th Street Factory

Mari in Kurami

Mari prepares a profile in Kuramae, Tokyo