Bronze Medal winner in the 2020 Academy of Chocolate International Awards
Silver Medal winner in the NZ Chocolate Awards 2020
There’s a little farm, on a little South Pacific Island growing cacao with enormous flavour. We use this humble ingredient from Masidau Farm, Epi, Vanuatu to make a deliciously fruity and rich drinking chocolate that leaves a delightfully long impression.
Foundry's drinking chocolate is made from ground 70% single origin craft chocolate, not from cocoa powder. It's delicious with water, or oat, coconut, soy, nut, goat’s or cow’s milk. Our favourite is water.
The drinking chocolate is packaged in a home compostable resealable pouch, with easy peel recyclable labels.
250g
From the 2020 vintage. Please note the batch number you receive will differ from the one pictured.
Ingredients:
Cacao Beans & Organic Cane Sugar. No added cacao butter, lecithin, vanilla or cocoa powder.
Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Soy Free and 100% Plant Based.
Origin Information
This cacao is grown by Joseph Merib on his farm near the town of Burumba on the island of Epi, Vanuatu. Joseph’s farm is called Masidau, which translates to Green Hill, and is on family owned customary land.
He started growing cacao in 2002, and also ferments the beans himself. Joseph and his wife run the farm, and his children and some local women help out at harvest time.
Joseph also grows other root crops (banana, taro, manioc, kumala) and nut trees (nangai) as well as kava.
He has been the Chairman of Vanuatu Cocoa Industry Association since 2017.
Foundry Chocolate purchased the cacao directly from Joseph, and pay a premium price that reflects the high quality of his beans.
Epi's economy is largely dependent on agriculture, with farmers historically growing coconuts, copra, peanuts and kava. However, as demand for high quality cacao increases, more farmers are switching to growing it.
The island of Epi is 43 km long and 18km wide, with a population of approximately 5,000 people. The highest point is the dormant Mt Pomare, at 833m, and the island has plenty of rugged and terrain and thick rainforest. Epi has many beautiful beaches, spectacular snorkelling, and even has resident Dugongs (Sea-Cows).
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Foundry Chocolate
Foundry Chocolate we celebrate and accentuate the remarkable personalities of the world’s finest cacao by crafting and aging micro-batches of award-winning bean-to-bar craft chocolate from scratch – using only two ingredients: Cacao Beans and Organic Sugar - all from our little foundry in Mahurangi, New Zealand.
ONLY TWO INGREDIENTS
That's all we use. Only the finest cacao beans and organic sugar.
Nothing else. No added cacao butter, lecithin or vanilla.
Nothing else to get in the way of the incredible flavours we celebrate and accentuate from the cacao. And because of this, each origin has its own unique flavours and personality. That's the magic of Foundry Chocolate.
