Maglio Italian Chocolate (est.1875) thanks to the passion of continuously discovering, have selected six origin cocoa coming from all over the world: Peru, Cuba, Equador, Tanzania, Venezuela, Indonesia.

Maglio has chosen the highest quality of small productions, whom are manage by cocoa producing families that have passed their passion down through the generations. The cocoa beans selected have unique flavors and tasty, thanks to the environment and climatic conditions: it is precisely the uniqueness of their characteristics that have enchanted Maglio, creating a delicious combination.

AFRICA: a single origin cocoa, grows south of the Equator far from the Tropic of Capricorn. This area is featured by a very dry heat and little rainfall, making Africa very bitter and particularly strong.

AFRICA is basically named as Forastero cocoa, very weatherproof and also very productive. Its “mazorca” has a very rounded shape and colors are generally orange, yellow, green. It is a cocoa of “morada” species. It is very dark, intense purplish almost black, naturally hybridized.

Its primary aroma is bitter and intense taste. It is slightly sour as aftertaste. Strong but pleasant astringency balanced by a slight sweetness of red fruits.

Its secondary aromas are persistent as aftertaste, leaving the palate clean. Undergrowth flavors and a slight hint of “toast” characterize the aromatic strength of this cocoa.

Overall balanced taste with little sweetness and acidity.

AFRICA can be paired with very aged whiskeys and rhum.

All the wide range of Single Origin Dark is a jornery…MAGLIO’S journey to discover the highest quality cocoa around the wordl!!!