Dried tart cherries and house-smoked almonds folded into our low-bitterness Venezuelan base — a chewy, smoky counterpoint to the Chuao Reserve's smoothness.
The release
We smoke the almonds for this bar ourselves over applewood, a deliberate echo of the same low-bitterness Criollo base underneath so the smoke reads as a complement rather than a clash with the chocolate's own gentle character. Dried tart cherries are chosen over sweet cherries specifically for the acidity to balance the smoked-almond richness.
Almonds are smoked and cooled the day before each batch, then folded in cold so they don’t soften the tempered chocolate around them.
