Bean to Bar chocolate designates a chocolate maker who controls the entire bean processing and chocolate making processes themselves. This means the chocolate maker buys raw cacao beans and then cleans, roasts, cracks, winnows, and grinds the cacao beans themselves.
2022 Winners: Castronovo Chocolate- Maya Mountain, 70%, Desbarres Chocolate- Ambanja, 72%, Quantu Chocolate- Gran Blanco, 70%, Ratza Chocolate- Just Dark Belize
Our most heavily weighted metric. Each bar is evaluated on the depth, complexity, length, and balance of flavor.
Each bar is evaluated on the texture, mouthfeel, flavor delivery, and melting properties.
Each bar is evaluated on the texture, mouthfeel, flavor delivery, and melting properties.
Each bar is evaluated on both its packaged and unpackaged appearance to determine whether the bar compels tasting.
