Our chocolate grows on trees.

picture: Daintree Estates

Good chocolate: this distinction may not be pertinent to anyone with serious cocoa cravings on their way to the supermarket for a quick fix, albeit of the mass-produced kind. For the casual consumer, chocolate is chocolate.

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Cocoa tree flower – Plantation Venezuela.

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Cocoa tree and pod – plantation in Venezuela.

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Le séchage – Plantation Millot.

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Le tri des fèves – Plantation El Pedregal, Venezuela.

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Les fèves: test à la coupe- plantation Millot Madagascar.

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Caisses de fermentation, plantation Millot Madagascar.

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Ecabossage plantation Millot, Madagascar.

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Cacaoyer Porcelana, plantation El Pedregal Venezuela.

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Plantation El Pedregal appartenant à Valrhona – Venezuela.

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