New harvest
Madagascar 72, this year's beans
Red berry, bright, a citrus-peel finish. Scored into twelve, roasted low, conched for three days.
38 AEDShop the bar
Single origin, this harvest
Seventy-two percent Madagascar.Snapped, not sliced.
Bean-to-bar chocolate from six origins, roasted low, conched for three days and tempered to a clean break. Shipped cold, with the farm named on every wrapper.
Departments
Browse allEverything in the box.
This week on the counter
Everything newFive things to leave with.
Gift boxes
The Eid box
Dates, cardamom, pistachio. Tied in pistachio ribbon, your card inside, delivered cold on the morning you choose.
from 98 AEDChoose a box
Bonbons
Hazelnut praline, rolled by hand
Piedmont hazelnuts in a 55 milk shell, a crack of Omani salt on top. Nine or sixteen to a box.
10 AED a piecePick your pieces
Drinking chocolate
The whisk set
Two blends, a hand whisk and two stoneware cups. Three minutes on the stove, no sachet in sight.
146 AEDSee the set
The tasting room
Come and break a bar with us
Al Quoz, Thursday to Saturday. Watch the roast, taste the batch, leave with the one you liked.
Free, book a slotBook a slot
Hover or tap a panel to open it.
Gifts by occasion
All giftsA box for the reason you have.
9 +Eid
Dates, cardamom, pistachio. The box opens on the first morning.
from98 USD
9 +Birthday
Their favourites, if you know them. Ours, if you do not.
from76 USD
6 +Thank you
Small enough to leave on a desk, good enough to be remembered.
from54 USD
16 +Corporate
Your card inside, our name on the back. Invoiced, delivered in one go.
from142 USD
6 +Just because
The box that needs no reason. Tuesday is a reason.
from42 USDHover a card to lift it off the table.Origins
Six farms, named on the wrapper.
Every bar comes from one place and says so. Hover a pin, or a card, to see what we buy there, when it is picked and what it tastes like.
- 6origins
- 11farms and cooperatives
- 2harvests a year
- 31.5°tempered at
MadagascarSambirano valley
- Variety
- Trinitario
- Altitude
- 60 m
- Harvest
- April to July
- Variety
- Nacional
- Altitude
- 300 m
- Harvest
- March to June
- Variety
- Blanco de Piura
- Altitude
- 350 m
- Harvest
- May to August
- Variety
- Amelonado
- Altitude
- 250 m
- Harvest
- October to February
- Variety
- Criollo
- Altitude
- 40 m
- Harvest
- October to January
- Variety
- Trinitario
- Altitude
- 10 m
- Harvest
- November to March
From the sack to the snap
Five things happen before a bar is a bar.
- 01
Sort the beans
Every sack is opened by hand. Flat, cracked or mouldy beans go; the rest are weighed into 25-kilo batches.
- 02
Roast, low and long
A drum roaster at 118 degrees for 38 minutes for Madagascar; Ecuador takes six more.
- 03
Crack and winnow
Roasted beans are cracked open and the papery husk is blown away. What remains is the nib.
- 04
Conche for three days
Nibs and cane sugar grind for 72 hours in a stone melangeur. Gritty turns glossy.
- 05
Temper and score
Heated, cooled and warmed again to 31.5 degrees. That is the snap, the sheen, the score lines.
Gift sets
All giftsWhat is in the box.
Boxed in paper, tied with foil, sent with a handwritten card. Every box ships cold.
6 barsWhat is inside- Six 70 g bars, one per origin
- Tasting cards with roast and harvest
- A percentage card to taste along
The origin flight box
Six single-origin bars from 55 to 100 percent, with tasting cards.
198.00USDChoose this box
16 piecesWhat is inside- Sixteen pieces in a paper tray
- Ganache, praline and caramel
- Two seasonal pieces this month
The bonbon tray
Sixteen filled pieces: ganache, praline, caramel and two seasonal.
168.00USDChoose this box
4 itemsWhat is inside- Madagascar 72 and Ghana milk, 250 g each
- A hand whisk
- Two stoneware cups
Notes that came back
What people wrote after the box arrived.
I bought the 72 for myself and the flight for my father. He rang to say it tasted like the chocolate his grandmother kept in a tin.
Twenty boxes for the office, each with a different card. Nobody got the same box and everybody thought theirs was the best one.
Arrived at four in the afternoon in July and the pieces still snapped. I do not know how, and I have stopped asking.
The tasting letter
One letter a month. One new bar, one farm, one recipe.
We send it on the first Thursday of the month. Unsubscribe from the letter itself.