Cuna de Piedra
73% Mexican Cacao from Comalcalco, Tabasco (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.05 oz. (30 g.) / 2.1 oz. (60 g.) in total bar
Calories: 100 calories in 1/2 bar (per label)
Cost: $10.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Caputo's, online order
73% Mexican Cacao from Comalcalco, Tabasco (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.05 oz. (30 g.) / 2.1 oz. (60 g.) in total bar
Calories: 100 calories in 1/2 bar (per label)
Cost: $10.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Caputo's, online order
Welcome to Day #10 of Chocolate & Mexico Theme Week.
Today's 73% Mexican Cacao from Comalcalco, Tabasco (bar) was from Cuna de Piedra* (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico).
The company is an "homage to Mexican Cacao." And the cacao used to make this bar was from a "single estate bean from a single grower, Malaquias (farm) in the Tabasco region where "several hundred cacao trees coexist with wild black pepper vines and various citrus species." (The cacao beans were part of a "Rainy Season, Harvest 2024".)
Aroma and flavor notes for this chocolate included: dark chocolate (rich and chocolate-y/dark cocoa), very faint earth in the aroma, in the beginning; and very faint but also very balanced bitter flavor toward the end.
I enjoyed this flavorful, balanced and lightly sweetened dark chocolate. I admired the subtle complexity: diffuse fruit (citrus, dried fruit and barely detectable red fruit), and diverse, well executed very faint dark cacao notes, including barely detectable, balanced earth/olive, and sweet green (young walnuts in syrup)). And I appreciated the thoughtful sourcing and the short list of only two, quality ingredients.
Ingredients: Cacao beans, Cane sugar.
Allergen-related information: "Manufactured in a facility that processes wheat, milk, soy, peanuts, tree nuts and eggs."
*The company name Cuna de Piedra translates to "cradle of stone."
