After Dinner Coffee Gift Box

Our Solomon Islands Guadalcanal cocoa farmers are based along the North coast of the island, not too far from the historical Henderson airport. As education is mandatory on all the islands we buy from, after school, all the children are seen playing around the fermentation boxes and cocoa boxes. Our main farmer has four sisters and a wife that help maintain the farm. Each playing a part in the cocoa production – from finance to fermenting - which means it’s a family discussion when our Chocolate Maker goes out there to meet them and check the crops.

The fermenting of our cocoa beans takes place just 50 metres from the main houses and with the smell of acetic acid (vinegar) aroma that occurs during fermenting of cocoa being present during harvest season. Due to the showery squalls that dash in from the South Seas, our farmers are invested in solar drying enclosures in the form of raised drying beds that can be quickly covered with canvas after the 50-metre dash! This form of drying and not fire-drying - allows the true flavours inherent in the cocoa bean to come through without smokiness being a flavour note.

Our farmers in Papua New Guinea are the Goodyear and Middleton families, who live on the gentle, fertile slopes of the volcano. They are both some of the main employers on the island, with farm hands having been there for generations and whole families choosing to work there due to the fair conditions.

Our cocoa comes from KarKar island, which sits off the Northeast coast of Papua New Guinea. As you arrive to KarKar Island by boat, the vista is a visually accurate representation of what you’d expect to see of a 40-mile-across volcano rising up from the sea! There is no plane service so the only way on and off the island is on the cocoa boat, which takes 6 hours and includes the weekly school commute and any hospital trips required… The boat is powered by coconut, to show how every part of one of the island’s main crop is used to aplomb. The island itself is inhabited by hundreds of different species of orchids which is a stunning sight, as are the millions of fruit bats which dine on the plethora of fruit produced - but not cocoa, thankfully. There are no monkeys on the island and instead, the tree kangaroo took over as resident of the rainforest trees of Papua New Guinea.

Cappuccino:
Unrefined sugar, cocoa butter, coffee, oat flour, rice flour, chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter) 55% cocoa solids, cocoa powder (fat reduced) vegetable oil, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, sea salt, natural flavourings.
Per 25g bar:
Energy 129 (kcal)/538 (kj)
Fat 8g of which saturates 5g
Carbohydrates 13g of which sugars 9g
Protein 1g
Salt 0.01g.
Papua New Guinea:
Cocoa mass, unrefined sugar, coffee, cocoa mass, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin. Cocoa solids min 68%.
Per 25g bar:
Energy 135 (kcal)/560 (kj)
Fat 10g of which saturates 6g
Carbohydrates 7g of which sugars 6g
Protein 2g
Salt 0.01g.
Suitable for vegans. Kosher certified. Allergens in bold.
Manufactured on equipment that also processes milk and nuts.