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VENEZUELAN BLACK is made from 100% cacao. The finest, rarest, most expensive cacao in the world.

It is produced from bean to bar by Willie Harcourt-Cooze using a simple and traditional process that avoids over-refining and captures the unique flavours of the world’s best criollo beans.

VENEZUELAN BLACK can be used in a multitude of ways, enriching anything from aromatic truffles, cakes and creamy hot chocolate to dark savoury sauces, gravy and casseroles. Its delicious, distinctive 100% pure cacao flavour is exceptionally versatile and adaptable.

Willie Harcourt-Cooze is the only small cacao grower and producer in the UK. He has been farming cacao for more than a decade at the Hacienda El Tesoro, his beautiful farm in the breathtaking mountains of the Henri Pittier National Park.

Just ten degrees north of the equator Willie’s thousand acres rise into cloud forest. Eleven years ago he planted 10,000 cacao trees in plantations surrounded by bio-diversity so varied that it lays claim to 3% of the world’s flora and 7% of the world’s bird species, as well as the legendary Chuao cacao, the basis of the world’s richest chocolate.

No pesticides, fertilizers or chemicals of any description have ever been used on Willie’s cacao trees, which are irrigated by water that runs down from the cloud forest-topped mountains. Once the beans have been harvested and fermented on his farm, they head directly across the sea to his chocolate factory in Devon, South West England.

Willie’s gleaming chocolate machines, his traditional 1920’s batch roaster and antique conching tanks from Spain growl, groan and thud as they process the beans to achieve the unique flavour of VENEZUELAN BLACK.

Willie’s El Tesoro harvest is small and exclusive and is used to produce limited edition VENEZUELAN BLACK HACIENDA EL TESORO 100% cacao bar. In the course of sourcing and selecting two additional exquisite strains of finest cacao, Willie journeyed across Venezuela by packhorse, mule, motorbike, bicycle, lorry and Land Rover. His extensive travels have resulted in two exceptional quality single bean bars: VENEZUELAN BLACK RIO CARIBE SUPERIOR and VENEZUELAN BLACK CARENERO SUPERIOR, both 100% cacao bars.



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