Rum Cocktail 71% Handmade Artisan Dark Chocolate Bar
This chocolate bar is made from cocoa beans grown on the slopes of the Rwenzori mountains in Uganda. I soaked them in a blend of rums fermented, distilled and spiced in Exeter by Two Drifters Distillery. The result is a boozy, fruity and mildly spiced dark chocolate which showcases the cacao and the rum equally.
International Chocolate Awards SILVER winner, 2024.
Food and Drink Devon Awards PLATINUM winner, 2024.
Ingredients: Cocoa beans, raw cane sugar, cocoa butter, rum.
50g
About the Rum
Lightly Spiced Rum - Smooth and warming with aromatic notes of vanilla, chai tea, toffee apple and delicate clove.
Signature Rum - French Oak, ex-Madeira casks have been adding a delicious flavour to our rum for a year. With gentle flavours of orange peel and muscovado sugar
Fermented, distilled and aged in Devon, UK
Pot still rum
100% cane molasses
Carbon negative rum
Plastic free packaging
About the beans
On the slopes of the Rwenzori mountain range, smallholder farmers grow a rare and flavoursome cacao. Its name is derived from ancient times when the mountain range was called Mountains of the Moon because of its snow-capped whiteness. The mountains of Rwenzori have unique microclimates, a rich biodiversity, and are known for abundant rainfall. Farmers grow their cacao intercropped with plantains, coffee, vanilla and other crops in a sustainable agroforestry system, like their ancestors have done before them.
Producer: Mountains of the Moon ™ is a social enterprise that supports farmers to develop organic farming, diversify and improve the quality of their crops, apply for international certification and thus increase and strengthen the family's income while protecting the natural environment.
Country: Uganda
Region: The slopes of the Rwenzori mountain range on the Uganda-Congo DRC border
Genetics: Forastero
Harvested: October to January is the main harvest
Post harvesting: Is centrally fermented for farmers 5 1/2 days in plastic boxes
