Flavor Notes

Located between tropical mountain forests, Paquibato is a community that grows many fruit trees, giving its chocolate notes of forest valley flowers, dark honey, hints of raisins, pineapple and caramelized nuts.

Description:

Best of 70% Micro-origin Collection

What makes Auro's 70% limited edition chocolates an extraordinary experience is you get to taste the complex note of the finest cacao beans which were hand-sorted from a one year's harvest from a very specific farm, hence "single estate" or "micro-origin".

This bar pays homage to the name of the place where its beans and farmers are from. Like wine, it carries with it all the remarkable flavors of its "terroir" - from the soil, the sunshine, the rainfall that year and the water that nourishes the cacao trees. 

Recommendation

Crafted with Auro's perfected recipe and with just three simple ingredients, the flavor profiles in the 70% Reserve Collection (Saloy, Paquibato and Tupi) are all different. We highly recommend that you taste them side by side to fully capture the essence of the micro-origins. 

Awards

Silver 2020, Academy of Chocolates
Bronze 2019, Academy of Chocolates
Bronze 2019, International Chocolate Awards Asia-Pacific

Jose Saguban of Paquibato won the Top 20 best cacao beans in the world for the Philippines during the 2019 International Cocoa Awards (ICA).

Mould: Inspired by local Filipino tapestries
Farms planted with: Coconut, lanzones, jackfruit and mangosteen

Ingredients: Cacao mass, Organic muscovado sugar, Cacao butter

Weight: 60g

Great to Know

Paquibato is a district of 66,000 inhabitants in Davao City, in the southern island of Mindanao.

Coordinates: 7.4 °N, 125.4 °E

Elevation: 305 masl