3-Bar Bean-to-Bar Dark Chocolate Set (53%–100%)
Three dark chocolate bars, different cacao percentages
The cost of real chocolate
The honest answer to 'why not $4 like the grocery store' is that this cacao is bought direct from small Peruvian growers at above-market rates in exchange to exceptional post harvest process, not through a commodity exchange — and it's made bean-to-bar in-house, not blended from someone else's already-processed chocolate. Both cost more upfront. We'd rather be upfront about that than quietly cut corners on where it comes from.
HOW TO TASTE IT
Three bars, tasted in the right order
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Let it melt first
Unwrap and let a piece sit on your tongue for a few seconds before you chew — most of the flavor shows up in the melt, not the bite.
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Start intense, ease out
Start with the 100%, then the 70%, and finish with Unmilk'd (53%) — we encourage tasting the most intense expression of the cacao first.
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Reset in between
A glass of water between bars resets your palate, the same way you would tasting coffee or wine.
Direct-trade, by name and by region
Every bar in this set starts with cacao we source directly from small growers and indigenous communities across Peru's High Amazon Basin and Tropical Desert regions — not through a commodity market.
We pay above market rate for it, on purpose, and it's why we can tell you exactly where each bar's cacao came from instead of just calling it 'cacao blend.'
A chocolate gift that doesn't feel like a gift card
Three bars, one box, one clear story — everything a good gift needs, nothing it doesn't.
Something for every palate
From the familiar 53% to the bracing 100%, there's a bar in here for the committed chocolate lover and the chocolate-curious alike — no guessing which bar to pick for someone.
An experience, not just a box
The tasting order turns opening it into something to actually do, not just something to eat — a few minutes of real ritual instead of another stocking-stuffer that's forgotten by New Year's.
A story worth telling
Direct-trade, single-origin, traceable back to the growers who made it — the kind of detail that turns 'here's some chocolate' into a gift people remember who gave it to them.
Frequently asked questions
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All three bars start from the same ceremonial-grade cacao. The 100% bar is that cacao with nothing added — literally our ceremonial cacao in bar form. The 70% bar adds coconut sugar, and the 53% (Unmilk'd) bar adds lucuma for a milk-chocolate-like texture, dairy-free. All three work whether you're new to craft chocolate or already drink ceremonial cacao
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Yes. All three bars are vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and made with no additives or preservatives — just cacao, and in the 70% and 53% bars, coconut sugar and lucuma.
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That's exactly why the Set moves through three intensities instead of just one — most people land on a favorite between the 53%, 70%, and 100% bars
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It means one maker controls the whole process — from the raw cacao bean all the way to the finished bar — instead of buying already-processed chocolate from a third party and just melting and reshaping it. For us it starts even earlier: we hand-select whole beans, not pre-processed nibs, bought directly from growers in Peru. Less bean-to-bar, more farm-to-bar.
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Most grocery-store chocolate is blended from cacao bought on the commodity market — beans from many farms, many countries, mixed together, with little traceability. Ours is single-origin, direct-traded from named growers in Peru's High Amazon Basin and Tropical Desert regions, and made bean-to-bar in-house rather than blended from someone else's already-processed chocolate.
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No. The 100% bar has nothing added at all. The 70% bar is sweetened with coconut sugar instead of refined cane sugar, and the 53% (Unmilk'd) bar gets its milk-chocolate-like sweetness from lucuma, a Peruvian fruit — no dairy, no refined sugar in any of the three.
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Keep them in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight, ideally in an airtight container or their original wrapper to hold onto aroma and freshness — refrigeration isn't necessary unless your home runs hot. Over time you may notice a light white or grey film on the surface (called bloom); that's just cacao butter or sugar separating, not spoilage, and it's still safe to eat.
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- The percentage is how much of the bar is actual cacao (cacao solids plus cacao butter) versus everything else added to it. Higher percentage means more intense, less sweet, and more of the cacao's natural flavor coming through — which is why the Set moves from 100% down to 53%, so you can taste that intensity curve directly instead of guessing from a number on a wrapper.
