Join Us For A Very Special Afternoon! Kallari Chocolates and Slow Food Santa Cruz Hosting a Wine and Chocolate Tasting. Limited Seating! Buy Your Tickets at http://brownpapertickets.com/
KALLARI is the only farmers' cooperative in the world that harvests, markets and enjoys all profits from its own line of organic chocolate. KALLARI is produced by a coalition of 850 indigenous Kichwa families in the Napo region of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The chocolate is intensely flavorful and delicate, with an extended finish and hints of fruit. Unlike other artesian dark chocolates, which compose a taste profile by blending multiple-source cacaos, KALLARI acquires its complex, nuanced flavor through the harvesting of endemic varietals found on small, family-owned Kichwa Farms. KALLARI's fresh, unadulterated taste and its absence of bitterness derive from this field blending of single-source noble varietal beans, primarily the rare and much esteemed Cacao Nacional, with hints of Criollo, Trinitario, Venezuelan and Blonde Cacao. A lecture will cover roasting techniques, origins of the chocolate, stages in cocoa production and bean preparation as well as the process for chocolate making, and the economic impact of chocolate as a commodity. A wine accompaniment to the chocolate tasting will be provided with proceeds supporting Slow Food Santa Cruz. Tickets will be $25 for Slow Food members and $30 for non-members. Seats are limited to 30 participants so book your tickets soon
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