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Lucid Chocolatier - Chuncho Especial - 86% - 1.8 oz.
Regular price $20.99 USDRegular price
About Lucid Chocolatier
- Based in
- Wairarapa, New Zealand
- Known for
- bean-to-bar chocolate from Peruvian cacao
Johnty Tatham tested close to 30 cacao origins before moving back to his family's farm in the Wairarapa to make chocolate from scratch. He chose to focus on cacao from Peru. The bars come in two styles: Purist bars of single-origin chocolate, and Inquisitive bars with added flavors.
Let a square of dark chocolate melt slowly on the tongue rather than chewing it. Try it with black coffee or a dry red wine, or chop it over vanilla ice cream.
Lucid Chocolatier questions
What does bean-to-bar mean?
A bean-to-bar maker buys whole cacao beans and does every step of turning them into chocolate, instead of melting down chocolate someone else made. That means roasting the beans, removing the shells, grinding the inner nibs into a paste and conching it, a long mixing that grinds it finer and smooths the texture. Johnty Tatham does all of this at Lucid, setting the roast and conching to bring out the flavor of each Peruvian cacao.
What does the percentage on a dark chocolate bar mean?
The percentage is the share of the bar that comes from the cacao bean itself, counting both the cocoa solids and the cocoa butter. Most of the rest is sugar, so a higher number means a more intense, less sweet bar. Lucid makes its bars from Peruvian cacao, so the number tells you how much of that cacao each bar holds.
