70% Kokoa Kamili Chocolate Bar
This is chocolate is the most different of all our single-origin chocolate bars. The tasting notes are fresh pineapple and honey. If you want to taste differences in pure chocolate, please consider this one and one of our other chocolate bars. And have a little chocolate tasting experience. I personally love this one, because this one has such bold flavors. These flavors are part of the cocoa bean, so, frankly, it’s mind-blowing how amazing it is. There are no additives or chemicals added to our chocolate. Our goal is let people experience single origin chocolate. And of course, enjoy handcrafted, amazing chocolate.
Vegan, Organic and Fair Trade certified.
Kokoa Kamili Fermentery was founded by Brian LoBue and Simran Bindra, who have backgrounds in international development throughout eastern and southern Africa. Prior to Kokoa Kamili, a single buyer dominated the area – the local arm of one of the world’s largest soft commodity trading houses. A sole buyer meant it had the power to set the price for cocoa, and farmers had little alternatives. Historically, farmers in the Kilombero Valley received some of the lowest prices for cocoa in the country. In Kokoa Kamili’s first year alone Kilombero farmers received the highest prices in Tanzania for their cocoa.
Today, Kokoa Kamili works with nearly 3000 smallholder farmers, most of whom farm between 0.5-2 acres of cocoa. Kokoa Kamili pays a premium--well above the market rate--to farmers for their ‘wet’ cocoa, and conducts its own fermentation and drying. By taking over the fermentation and drying process, Kokoa Kamili can produce more consistently higher quality cocoa beans. This method gives farmers a reduced workload, along with greater compensation, and the farmers are paid immediately after the cooperative receives its wet beans.Kokoa Kamili also distributes cocoa seedlings to farmers in the community. In the past three years, they have aided in the planting of over 140,000 trees.
Kokoa Kamili is situated in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, an area known for its abundance of bird and mammal wildlife. It is most famous for the eleven different primate species, bird life, and is one of three remaining sites that support Savannah Elephants in a mountainous environment. Current estimates say that 2,000 elephants reside in and around the Udzungwa area.
Availability
We re-stock our online store about once a week. If something is out of stock, please check back the following week.
Store pickup
Choose "local pickup" from the shipping options if you would like to pick up your order at our shop at 50 Vasquez Rd, Su.E. Winter Park, CO.
Shipping time and rates
We ship from a very small mountain town in Colorado. USPS picks up once a day when the weather is good. We sometimes get massive snow storms, which will delay USPS and us. USPS, which takes 3-5 days, depending on the region of the country. Shipping is a flat rate, $11.00 (not insulated) or $20.00 (insulated), regardless of how much chocolate you order.
Shipping days
To reduce the odds of a package getting stuck at USPS over the weekend, we ship early in the week, usually on Tuesdays.
Chocolate can melt
If you expect that temperatures will be above 80 degrees anywhere along the route that your shipment will travel, consider selecting the "Insulated USPS" option during checkout. Although we can't guarantee that it will prevent your chocolate from melting, the insulated shipping option includes a cold gel pack and insulation. But please understand that we don't have any control over how the package is handled by the shipper, so we do not accept returns for melted chocolate.
Questions?
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.