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.

CARENERO EL CLAVO, single origin cocoa, grows just south of the Tropic of Cancer and the summer hot climate, combined with torrential winter rains, gives this cocoa the softness of Criollo from Venezuela.

CARENERO EL CLAVO is one of the many different varieties of Criollo living in Venezuela, a slight Amazonian hybridization is mixed in this “violet” cocoa.

The “mazorca” seems like Criollo shape, wrinkled and with some grooves. Bright color on shades of orange and yellow, give all the the characteristic of good Amazonian cocoa with a strong aromatic structure.

The primary aroma is very intense, with a rather roundness taste, the structure is very pleasant. Thanks to the roasted cocoa beans, the sweetness of “white Criollo” is best appreciated, which releases all the secondary aromas.

Secondary aromasuch as a flavor of citrus, coffee, hazelnut, very long and persistent in aftertaste. Different shades of berries.

CARENERO EL CLAVO can be paired with old aged rhum, cognac.

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