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Rio Verde Valley · 72% cacao

Rio Verde 72%

Name: Rio Verde 72%
SKU: CF-RV72
Price: 14.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$14.00

70 g bar · price includes the fermentation log card

The house bar. Six-day ferment, twenty-two minute roast, seventy-two per cent. Two ingredients.

88 in stock

Cacao

72%

Net weight

70 g

Ferment

6 days

Batch

RV-2508-014

SKU: CF-RV72 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 8/10
Floral 4/10
Nut 5/10
Caramel 6/10
Smoke 2/10
Acidity 7/10
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

Finca Rio Verde

Batch RV-2508-014

Region Rio Verde Valley
Altitude 780 m
Variety Trinitario
Fermentation 6 days
Roast 22 min @ 118 °C
Harvest Main crop 2025
Farm-gate paid $6.40 / 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

If you only ever eat one bar of ours, make it this one. Rio Verde is the estate we have bought from longest, and the six-day box ferment is the protocol we worked out with them over three harvests of arguing about turn times.

The bar opens with red plum, settles into cane molasses, and finishes on toasted almond with almost no astringency. The roast is deliberately short and low for a seventy-two — pushing it further would flatten the fruit that the ferment built.

Ingredients: cacao, organic cane sugar. Nothing else. Not even vanilla, which is what most makers reach for when the bean is thin.

Additional information

Weight	0.07 lbs
Cacao	72%
Origin	Rio Verde Valley
Estate	Finca Rio Verde
Altitude	780 m
Variety	Trinitario
Fermentation	6 days
Net weight	70 g
Batch	RV-2508-014

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