“We went looking for the best Criollo cocoa in the world and found it on the north coast of Venezuela. On the Caribbean Sea near Chuao, we found the small Cuyagua community, whose 50-hectare Criollo plantation had been completely abandoned because it was not profitable.We immediately relized that it was a cocoa of extraordinary quality, with pure Criollo trees”.

CUYAGUA 55% is single origin milk chocolate made by processing Cuyagua cocoa mass. This Venezuelan Criollo Cacao is very rare, due to its extreme delicacy and sensitivity to the environment, and is called Cacao Blanchito. The different aromas of CUYAGUA 55% are the result of the perfect geographic location which this Criollo grows in: the climate is hot in the summer and humid and rainy in the winter; all marked by the Caribbean breeze and the freshness of the Andes mountains Its “mazorca” has the classic Criollo shape, very wrinkled with well-delineated grooves, bottleneck at the top, called “Cundeamor,” and bright red color.