Kekao October Chocolate Subscription
Let's take a closer look at what chocolates you can expect to receive this month with the Kekao Box.
Goodio Chocolate
Founded in 2015, Goodio is a food pioneer with a big heart. The story started with a question: “What if there was a food brand you could trust?”. Goodio was created on the principles of sustainability, well-being, and transparency. It's a vision to bring Nordic-inspired flavors to a chocolate brand for the global consumer.
Goodio Nacional 80%
Tasting notes: Earthy
Ranger Chocolate
Based on family recipes and named for founder George Domurot’s niece, a National Park Service Forest Ranger, Ranger Chocolate Company carefully handles each cacao bean to unlock nuance, regionality, and terroir-driven flavors in their chocolate.
Ranger Mayan, Adventure Series 75%
This bar is influenced by the ancient Maya culture from Mesoamerica. The Mayan people are known to have combined cacao (“ka’kau”) with spices and chile peppers to produce the “drink of the gods.” With this bar, we honor the traditional ingredients found in their ancient drink, blending them into a unique chocolate experience.
Tasting notes: Fruity
Valrhona Chocolate
Valrhona is a French chocolate company founded in 1922. The company produces a wide range of high-quality chocolates, including dark, milk, and white chocolate, as well as chocolate bars, pastries, and other confections. Valrhona's chocolate is known for its rich, intense flavor and is used by many professional pastry chefs and chocolatiers around the world. The company is based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône-Alpes region of France.
Valrhona Grand Cru Guanaja 70%
This bar develops extraordinary bitterness, revealing a whole aromatic range of warm notes while unveiling flowery notes and an intense flavor that is exceptionally long-lingering.
Tasting Notes: Flowery
Mirzam Chocolate
Mirzam chocolate maker drawn by the stars, tells the story of the spice trade through the lens of craft chocolate. This Emirati company, with five distinct lines of artisan chocolate, expresses the tale of the Middle East’s ancient role as seafaring traders, with each bar speaking to the history, culture, and traditions of those along the maritime Spice Route.
Mirzam Dark Chocolate with Orange & Cinnamon 62%
A delightfully intense orange flavor, combined with one of the Spice Route’s most infamous ingredients: cinnamon. Made with organic orange extract and freshly ground cinnamon, to ensure each piece of chocolate you enjoy tastes like a sun ripened orange. This bar is gluten free, vegan friendly – and contains only natural spices for flavor.
Tasting Notes: Zest and Spice
To get started with craft chocolate, start with our Kekao Box. We search the world for the finest chocolate bars and bring them right to your doorstep monthly. From rich dark Peruvian chocolate bars to new start-up chocolate bars on the come-up, you never know what you'll get inside the box! Each month we will curate 4 to 5 premium specialty-crafted chocolate bars.
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Actual chocolate received in any given month may feature different chocolates than described in this blog post.
