Esmeraldas 42%

Silky notes of caramel, hazelnut and salt waft through this rare cocoa chocolate from Arriba like the mist of an Ecuadorian cloud forest where tree frogs bask in the sun.

The daily mists and rains rising up from the Pacific to the Esmeraldas cacao forests cannot unsettle a sloth whose thickish fur grows upwards for the perfect water run-off. The taste floats down from Ecuador’s last Pacific cloudforest, where silky tree frogs bask in the humid breeze.