Maya Mountain, Belize 85% 2023 Batch 1 Single-Origin Chocolate Bar

tasting notes: fresh lime peel, jasmine, and greek yogurt The beans for this bar come from Maya Mountain Cacao, Ltd., a social enterprise that buys freshly harvested, unfermented cacao from indigenous Mayan smallholder farmers in southern Belize, then gathers the beans at a centralized fermentary in Punta Gorda. By fermenting and drying all the beans in one place, Maya Mountain Cacao carefully controls quality and flavor consistency in their cocoa, allowing them to fetch a high price. This in turn empowers Maya Mountain Cacao to pay farmers extremely well for their beans. Trevor was the Origin Lead for our Tokyo factory’s Maya Mountain bars crafted from both the 2015 and 2016 harvests, as well as for the 2018 and 2021 harvest bars produced in San Francisco. For this 2022 harvest, he roasts the beans to bring out floral aromas — a first in a Dandelion Maya Mountain bar. Ingredients & Allergens All of our single-origin chocolate is made with just cocoa beans and sugar; no added c