Santander ChocolateFrom the heartland of Colombia, where the best coffee grows, comes also one
of the finest cacao in world. Chocolate Santander, the only single origin
chocolate produced in Colombia and one of South America's most special,
takes its name from the State of Santander, Eastern Colombia. The
privileged terrains of the Andean mountains of Yariguies yields Colombia's best
cacao, known by its exquisite and delicate flavor. This inconmparable cacao is
the result of the region's unique geographic and agricultural conditions. Cacao pods, in colorful yellows and reds, oranges, and violets, are hand
harvested with scissors and forks, split-open with short machetes, sorted,
fermented in wooden boxes, and then dried in the sun on wooden boards, all
according to a centuries-old tradition that brings out the outstnading
organoleptic attributes of Chocolate Santander. |