Three stacked squares of very dark glossy chocolate with whole roasted cacao beans scattered around them.

Alto Mirador Ridge · 78% cacao

Alto Mirador 78%

Name: Alto Mirador 78%
SKU: CF-AM78
Price: 15.50 USD
Availability: InStock

$15.50

70 g bar · price includes the fermentation log card

Grown at eleven hundred metres. Floral, high-toned, and the most divisive bar we make.

62 in stock

Cacao

78%

Net weight

70 g

Ferment

7 days

Batch

AM-2508-006

SKU: CF-AM78 Category: Single Origin Dark

Two ingredients in every dark bar — cacao and cane sugar.
Farm-gate price printed on the wrapper insert, not averaged.
Shipped in insulated paper. Free over $60 in the continental US.

Tasting panel

Flavour wheel

Fruit 6/10
Floral 7/10
Nut 4/10
Caramel 4/10
Smoke 3/10
Acidity 8/10
Six tasters, blind, three sittings. Scores are the median, not the mean, so one outlier palate cannot move the shape.

Traceability

Where this batch came from

Hacienda Alto Mirador

Batch AM-2508-006

Region Alto Mirador Ridge
Altitude 1,120 m
Variety Nacional
Fermentation 7 days
Roast 24 min @ 121 °C
Harvest Main crop 2025
Farm-gate paid $7.10 / kg dry

Valley section

Roast curve

Wet beans were boxed the day they were cut, turned every 24 hours, then sun-dried on raised beds until they held twelve per cent moisture. Nothing in this record is averaged across harvests.

Description

Alto Mirador sits high enough that the pods ripen slowly and the beans come in small. The seven-day ferment is longer than we use anywhere else, and it pushes the profile into jasmine and green banana territory that people either love immediately or need a second sitting to hear.

There is a black-tea tannin on the finish. That is not a flaw and it is not over-roasting — it is what Nacional does at this altitude, and sanding it off with more sugar would be the wrong answer.

Highest acidity score on our panel sheet. Drink water between squares, not coffee.

Additional information

Weight	0.07 lbs
Cacao	78%
Origin	Alto Mirador Ridge
Estate	Hacienda Alto Mirador
Altitude	1120 m
Variety	Nacional
Fermentation	7 days
Net weight	70 g
Batch	AM-2508-006

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