Côte
01 — The cacao

Single-origin
cacao

Beans from one estate, fermented in wooden boxes and roasted in small batches to coax out the fruit hiding inside the pod.

Estate
Hacienda
San José
Variety
Criollo
Harvest
Feb 2025
02 — The pour

Poured by hand

Tempered slowly over marble, then poured into the mould while still molten — a four-minute window where timing is everything.

Temper · 31°C Working time · 4 min Marble slab
03 — The bar

The finished bar

Set to a mirror sheen with a clean, resonant snap — the sound of cocoa butter crystallised exactly right.

Snap
Clean
Sheen
Mirror
Melt
31.6°C
04 — This batch
Origin
Chuao,
Venezuela
Cacao
72%
Batch
No. 014
Bar
70g

Notes of ripe red berry, toasted hazelnut and a soft molasses finish — the signature of cacao grown in the deep shade of the Chuao valley.

05 — The making

From bean to finished bar

0172 hrs

Roast & Conch

Slow-roasted in small drums, then conched for three days into a silken texture.

0231°C

Temper

Cooled and warmed across precise curves so the cocoa butter sets into a stable crystal.

0312 hrs

Mould & Set

Poured molten and left to set overnight, for a glossy face and a clean snap.

Limited release

Order the batch

Batch No. 014 is bottled at sixty bars. When they're gone, they're gone.

£14 / bar Edition of 60 Ships in 48h
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