Vinte Vinte, Portugese premium bean to bar chocolate, made with the best cacao, enters the UK market.
Vinte Vinte was began in Porto, Portugal by Pedro Martins Araújo, chef, professional in chocolate and licensed skilled taster.
The story
Pedro travelled all through the cacao belt, researching extensively and visiting cacao plantations to supply the perfect cacao for prime quality artisan chocolate.
On his return to Portugal he launched Vinte Vinte, which suggests twenty twenty, referring to the cacao belt which lies between the Tropic of Most cancers and the Tropic of Capricorn, or 20 levels north to twenty levels south of the Equater.
Inside a yr of the model’s launch, it obtained glowing accreditations for the chocolate and its packaging design, together with seven awards from the distinguished Academy of Chocolate in 2021.
Our chocolate is made with the best cacao, harvested from the perfect producing nations all over the world. Crafted with ardour and experience in Porto.
Pedro Martins Araújo
The Vinte Vinte manufacturing unit is positioned throughout the Chocolate Story museum on the World of Wine, in Vila Nova de Gaia. They provide a novel chocolate tasting expertise alongside premium high quality Port wines.
How is Vinte Vinte totally different?
Producers of most mass produced industrial chocolate roast their beans at very excessive temperatures, utilizing vanilla and further sugar to compensate for the lack of flavour.
Artisan sweets are loved for his or her distinctive flavour profiles based mostly on the sort of cacao used and the place on the planet it’s sourced, the opposite components used and strategies of manufacturing.
Vinte Vinte is a premium craft chocolate (or bean-to-bar chocolate) which suggests each step of the cacao manufacturing course of is checked out, from figuring out the framers and the terroir, to utilizing moral technique of manufacturing.
Like a high-quality wine, the terroir is answerable for round 50% of the flavour so the packaging on every bar states the cacao’s nation of origin.
Even the milk is fastidiously sourced from the Azores the place the free grazing system mixed with conventional strategies for dealing with livestock produces a top quality product, contributing to the general flavour.
The vary
The Vinte Vinte vary contains 4 classes of bars: Traditional, Depth, Fusion and Grand Cru.
The Traditional is a superb creamy assortment for chocolate followers with two darkish sweets, one milk and a white.
For the Depth vary, the cacao has been fastidiously chosen from a few of the finest producing nations on the planet, corresponding to Madagascar, Peru and Uganda, every reflecting the perfect cacao from the nation.
I completely suggest attempting the 100% darkish chocolate, an award profitable chocolate with robust cacao, plus olive, dried fig and nutty notes. It’s created from a particularly uncommon however protected number of cacao from Peru.
Fusion combines the chocolate with attention-grabbing flavours corresponding to darkish with chilli or further chilli, mint, saltflower, milk chocolate with hazelnut and white with purple berries.
The Grand Cru bar is one other award winner which I extremely suggest, with reasonable acidity and notes of ripe apple, sultanas, hazelnut, walnut, almond and cacao.
It’s produced yearly from a single plantation, single harvest cacao, Finca La Rioja in Mexico – among the best plantations and cacao producing area of the world.
Vinte Vinte’s vary contains bonbons full of clean ganache, tins of creamy velvety Traditional Truffles, Port Truffles, and a Chocolate and Port Wine paring field, all of which might make fantastic items.
There are additionally tins of Cocoa Nibs for baking and Cocoa Powder for drinks.
Vinte Vinte is at the moment accessible at Cocoa Runners and can quickly be accessible in chosen shops throughout London and the UK.
