77% Davao, Philippines Dark Chocolate Bar  E-mail this product to a friend

(85g/3oz)

77% includes 1% cocoa butter (that we press in our factory with the same beans)
23% organic cane juice

The first cacao brought to Asia in 1600 was grown in the Philippines and we are the first chocolate maker to export Filipino cocoa beans in nearly twenty-five years. The beans used to make this tantalizing bar are very exclusive, making the Davao, Philippines chocolate bar uniquely exotic. There has never before been a single origin bar from the Philippines.

 “Askinosie Chocolate is the first chocolate maker in the world to export our historic cocoa beans since the mid-1980’s. We are excited about [Askinosie’s] work with farmers so that people around the world can share in the taste of what our cocoa beans can produce.”
-Josephine Ramos of the Cacao Foundation of the Philippines.

“Dark and deep with a touch of toastiness, it’s dry like a full bodied well aged red wine. This bar is compelling in its own East Asian way.”
- Ari Weinzweig, Founder of the world famous Zingerman’s Deli

"If there were Oscars for Chocolate, this new bar would be nominated -- and would win! -- for "Best New Original Chocolate" hands down!...The Davao bar has a wonderful richness and intensity. It rewards the melt-in-your-mouth consumer (don't chew!) with deep forest flavors, with bacon fat and the type of earthiness occasionally found in rare, old, well-cared-for Cote Rotie wines from the northern Rhone."
-Jim White, Food Writer, napaman.com

"Here is a chocolate that is near a masterwork. Close to epitomizing what fine chocolate is all about, a true evolution of flavor unfolding across the palate - reminiscent of forest, affecting your body - flavors changing moods, then back again. Great length on the finish, with a lingering note of blackberry."
- Casey Meshbesher, Chocolate Note blog on the 77% Davao Dark Chocolate