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Flavor Profile: Smoky, figs, cranberry, green tea
To'ak makes the world's finest and most expensive chocolates, with some of their single bars costing up to $450! Why? The cacao is grown in Manabi, Ecuador, which is to cacao what Burgundy is to wine. Beans come from the rarest variety, pure 100% Nacional, which is over 5,300 years old. To'ak also promotes sustainability and conservation. Barefoot is proud to offer these one-of-a-kind chocolates.
Oaxaqueño Mezcal Cask Aged Story: The Oaxacan Koch Distillery lives and breathes mezcal. This 2021 harvest adopts the agave-based drink’s smokiness as winter spices, figs, and cranberries peek through the 75% bar.
Pairing Recommendations
Cheese (aged gouda, gruyere, compte, Pyrenees Sheep), Whiskey, Mezcal
Location: Ecuador
Size: 1.76 oz (price is per bar)
Ingredients: Cacao beans, cane sugar
*Waitlist is on a first come basis
NOTE: chocolates will only ship if ordered with a coffee bean order. We do not ship in summer or hot weather but do have a wide selection at our cafes.
$40.00
Nose: Blackberry marmalade bomb with hints of flowers.
Palate: Burst of berries, floral honey, nutty caramel
Finish: Berries, almonds, tinge of grapefruit
To'ak makes the world's finest and most expensive chocolates, with some of their single bars costing up to $450! Why? The cacao is grown in Manabi, Ecuador, which is to cacao what Burgundy is to wine. Beans come from the rarest variety, pure 100% Nacional, which is over 5,300 years old. To'ak also promotes sustainability and conservation. Barefoot is proud to offer these one-of-a-kind chocolates.
2021 Rain Harvest 18 Hours Conch Story: Heavy rains during ripening and harvest time pushed this cacao in a fruitier direction. With this edition, To'ak chose a conching time of 18 hours, which is longer than in previous years.
Pairing Recommendations: Spirits: sweet single malts from Speyside, triple-distilled Irish whisky, well-aged bourbon, VSOP Cognac, reposado or anejo Tequila, Zacapa 21 Rum. Wines: sweet dessert wines like Port or Sauternes. Cheese: Robiola, brie, triple-cremes, and semi-soft cheeses like gouda, havarti, and fontina.
Location: Ecuador
Size: 1.76 oz (price is per bar)
Ingredients: Cacao beans, cane sugar*
*Organic
NOTE: chocolates will only ship if ordered with a coffee bean order. We do not ship in summer or hot weather but do have a wide selection at our cafes.
$24.75 $70.00
WE TASTE: This special regenerative coffee has notes of brown sugar, berries, and orange with hints of cacao nibs.
COUNTRY: Colombia
PRODUCER: ASOTBILBAO
REGION: Planadas, Tolima
ELEVATION: 1450 masl
PROCESS: Washed
OTHER: Traceable, organic farm, regenerative farm
FARM INFO
This Regenerative coffee is sourced from family-owned farms organized around ASOTBILBAO, a producer association with 50 members who live in Bilbao within the municipality of Planadas in the department of Tolima. Members of ASOTBILBAO are graduates of Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje SENA. SENA is a non-governmental educational institution that provides social and technical education to its participants. The average age of members of ASOTBILBAO is 35 years old and in collaboration with an exporting company called Mastercol, coordinate efforts to improve the quality of coffee including technical support to guide coffee farmers on the best agricultural practices for quality coffee production and wither investments in projects focused on the improvement of coffee farm infrastructure.
For many years Tolima has remained hidden in plain sight between other well-known coffee growing regions because armed conflict and coca leaf production isolated small coffee producers and exposed them to high rates of violence. As conflict has subsided in recent years, locally organized associations have taken the lead in creating market access for their coffee. Strategies like certifications have dominated this region's ability to differentiate coffee in a competitive market. It’s no surprise that Tolima’s associations have taken the lead on regenerative practices, the newest of the certification trends in coffee.
Origin photos by Royal Coffee
$34.00
This 6 Cup French Press from Yama Glass is perfect for brewing coffee or tea. Modern and elegant, this sophisticated french press is simple and easy to use. Made with hand blown borosilicate glass, these brewers are heat resistant, and safe for use in the dishwasher.
Serving Size: 25 oz
$23.50 $79.00
TASTING NOTES: Floral aromas lead to notes of raspberry, lavender, and lemon with a delicate body.
ROAST LEVEL: Light
COUNTRY: Ethiopia
REGION: Banko Chelchele Kabele, Gedeb Woreda
GROWER: Smallholder farmers organized organized around the Banko Chelchele washing station
ELEVATION: 1900-2100masl
PROCESS: Washed
OTHER: Traceable, Single Origin
FARM INFO
The municipality of Gedeb is a bustling outpost that links commerce between the Guji Zone and Gedeo Zones, with an expansive network of processing stations who buy cherry from across zone borders. Coffees from this community, much closer to Guji Zone than the rest of Yirgacheffe, are often the most explosive cup profiles from anywhere in Ethiopia. Fully washed lots are often sparklingly clean and fruit candy-like in structure.
The communities surrounding Gedeb reach some of the highest growing elevations for coffee in the world. Banko Chelchele is one of the communities east of Gedeb, part of a greater area known as “Worka”. This dense corner of Gedeb includes farmers that are cooperative-affiliated, as well as independent washing stations of various types, many of which are simply named “Chelchele”.
396 local farmers contribute cherry to Worka Chelchele. The washing station was built in 2021, on 2.5 hectares of land with 12 fermentation tanks and over 250 raised beds for drying. Washed coffees at Worka Chelchele are depulped and fermented for 48 hours, washed clean with fresh water, soaked again in fresh water, and dried on raised beds for an average of 18 days.
Worka Chelchele, as well as the entire export chain for this coffee, is owned by Tadesse Desta Import & Export, a small but modernized coffee logistics company. They use electronic color sorters at their small dry mill in Addis, and are currently in the middle of their organic and RFA certification processes, which they expect to have in place next year. Worka Chelchele is their main processing source for the best coffees they export.
Origin photo by Royal Coffee
