Experimental phase: initial rating derived from official awards and critic reviews
Academy of Chocolate - Bronze
2023
Foundry Chocolate's Semuliki Forest, Uganda 90% is a high-percentage dark chocolate bar made from cacao beans grown in the Semuliki Forest region of Uganda. The chocolate is characterized by its intense cocoa flavor, carefully crafted to highlight the unique terroir of the Ugandan origin.
Foundry Chocolate is known for its bean-to-bar approach, ensuring that each bar maintains high quality and distinct taste profiles by sourcing organic beans directly from the farmers and performing meticulous roasting, grinding, and conching processes.
Foundry Chocolate, based in New Zealand, specializes in producing single-origin chocolate bars using cacao sourced from distinct regions around the world. The company emphasizes a bean-to-bar process, focusing on small-batch production to preserve unique flavor profiles of different cacao beans.