Piura Gran Blanco beans are grown in the Piura region of Peru (northwest corner of the country). This is a dry forested climate that produces cacao with a high percentage of white beans - compared to the purple color seen inside most fresh cacao beans. The rare Gran Blanco variety, especially, has a very high percentage of these white beans and produces chocolate with a signature lightness rather than a deep chocolatey taste. This cacao is extra special for me personally, as I have traveled in 2026 to meet its farmers and the master fermenter, Joe Huachez Tamariz. Scroll through the pictures here to see the white beans, his cacao being harvested, his fermentary drying rack, and me gifting some of my other Sotto Chocolate bars to Joe during my visit. Enjoy!
Flavor profile: Fresh citrus (e.g., lime, grapefruit), with floral and nutty notes.
Ingredients: cacao beans, organic sugar, organic cocoa butter
45gm bar
Piura Gran Blanco beans are grown in the Piura region of Peru (northwest corner of the country). This is a dry forested climate that produces cacao with a high percentage of white beans - compared to the purple color seen inside most fresh cacao beans. The rare Gran Blanco variety, especially, has a very high percentage of these white beans and produces chocolate with a signature lightness rather than a deep chocolatey taste. This cacao is extra special for me personally, as I have traveled in 2026 to meet its farmers and the master fermenter, Joe Huachez Tamariz. Scroll through the pictures here to see the white beans, his cacao being harvested, his fermentary drying rack, and me gifting some of my other Sotto Chocolate bars to Joe during my visit. Enjoy!
Flavor profile: Fresh citrus (e.g., lime, grapefruit), with floral and nutty notes.
Ingredients: cacao beans, organic sugar, organic cocoa butter
45gm bar
