Vintage Plantations Semi Sweet Chocolate Baking Chunks

65% chunks of dark, semi sweet baking chocolate. This deep, rich chocolate is perfect for all your baking needs. The beans have been roasted and ground to achieve optimum flavor and to mix easily with all baking ingredients.

Grown only in Ecuador, Arriba is a fine flavored cocoa with a perfumed floral scent. Smooth and subtle, with a dominant floral note and nutty after notes. No vanilla or aroma is added.

Plantation's mission is to safeguard heirloom cocoa varieties and encourage new sustainable cultivation methods that preserve the rain forest and guarantee a fair price for cacao planters. The trees' parentage has been identified by Cirad, a leading international cocoa research organization, to be 100% Arriba.

Vintage Plantations pioneered the Rainforest Alliance, a leading conservation agency dedicated to implementing better business practices for biodiversity conservation and sustainability. The Alliance's Ecuadorian partner, Conservacion y Desarrollo, is implementing the sustainable program. Vintage Chocolates guarantee heirloom variety traceability and conceived this project to protect the last remaining stands of native arriba cocoa plantations.

By buying the Arriba bar, you support the planters directly, help preserve the only native cocoa flavor varietal, and safeguard the Ecuadorian rain forest.