Goodnow Farm

Goodnow Farms - Asochivite with Maple, 70%

55 g Fine Dark Chocolate
Regular price $33.00 USD
Sale price $33.00 USD Regular price

The World's Best Chocolate with Alternative Ingredients 2024

International Chocolate Awards 2024 - Gold

This award-winning chocolate bar is crafted with Asochivite cacao, sourced directly from the Q’eqchi Maya farmers of San Juan Chivite, Guatemala. The farmers harvest cacao from wild trees surrounding their village and oversee fermentation and drying at their own facilities, ensuring high-quality and consistent flavor.

To balance the cacao’s naturally bright, fruity notes, Goodnow Farms incorporates maple sugar from Severance Maple in Northfield, MA. After evaluating multiple sources, they selected Milt Severance’s granulated maple sugar for its distinct, full-bodied maple flavor, which enhances the complexity of the Asochivite cacao.

This bar is also made with freshly pressed Asochivite cocoa butter, a process that few chocolate makers undertake. Pressing their own cocoa butter results in a richer, more pronounced single-origin flavor and an exceptionally smooth texture.

The result is a meticulously crafted chocolate bar that highlights the synergy between fine cacao and high-quality maple sugar, delivering a balanced and refined tasting experience.

Vegan, Gluten-Free, Soy Free

Like coffee beans and wine grapes, different cacao beans have different flavors. By using beans sourced from only one farm or region we’re able to highlight the distinct flavor characteristics of that particular bean. Discovering those flavors is one of the joys of making (and eating) single-origin craft chocolate!

To make excellent chocolate we need to start with excellent beans. We’ve traveled throughout Latin America searching for the most flavorful beans, and have direct relationships with the farmers who grow and harvest them. By dealing directly with farmers we’re able to ensure we always receive the very best beans, which in many cases are fermented and dried to our custom specifications. Our direct trade model also allows us to pay significantly more than commodity or Fair Trade prices, and ensure that farming practices are sustainable and labor practices are equitable.

All of our chocolate is made at our 225 year old farm in Sudbury, Massachusetts. We start with cacao beans and sugar, and perform every step of the chocolate making process in-house, including carefully hand wrapping each bar. We’re also one of the only chocolate makers to use our own freshly pressed, single origin cocoa butter in our chocolate. Doing this is time consuming and difficult, but the result is exceptionally smooth and intensely flavorful chocolate.

We believe that great craft chocolate is “true to the bean,” – that the flavors apparent in the bar reflect the flavors hidden in the bean. We invite you to explore our website to learn more about the many steps involved in truly realizing the full flavor potential of single-origin chocolate cacao, from personal sourcing to painstakingly roasting, pressing cocoa butter, conching and more. What you discover will change the way you think about chocolate!

Cacao Beans, Organic Sugar, Fresh Pressed Cocoa Butter

Keep in a cool, dry place, away from direct light and strong odors. Store at maximum
18 ° C in its original packaging

Our chocolate makers proudly refrain from using any artificial stabilizers or preservatives in their products, making their creations more temperature-sensitive compared to other premium chocolates.

To ensure the optimal taste experience, it's advisable to store our chocolates in a cool, dry place where the temperature hovers between 16°C and 18°C. Please refrain from refrigerating our chocolates, as this may cause sugar crystallization due to increased humidity, altering their texture and flavor.

On the contrary, if stored in excessively high temperatures, cocoa butter may separate and form a white film on the chocolate's surface. This loss of cocoa butter can lead to the chocolate drying out and, consequently, a potential alteration in flavor. Your mindful storage practices will help preserve the integrity of our delectable chocolates.

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