Alegio Chocolaté / Claudio Corallo

World-Class Liberica Coffee

$ 22.50
The Liberica Coffee (mainly used in combination with chocolate) is grown on Principe. The different varieties of Arabica have their home on the island of São Tomé.
Half way up the highest mountain on the island of Sao Tome lies the plantation of Nova Moca. Here Claudio and his team cultivate the different varieties of Arabica on terraces protected by stone walls. Some of these varieties are the world's most exquisite and rare species.
 
The fruits, once they are perfectly mature, are harvested by hand one by one and processed using natural methods developed by Claudio himself in order to preserve the different aromas of each species and variety of bean.
The Liberica Coffee is an almost extinct variety of coffee. It was abandoned because it was much less productive than Arabica or Robusta, and because its beans, which are particularly large and hard, must be peeled by hand, one by one. On our plantation Terreiro Velho on the Island of Principe we grow this extraordinary coffee alongside cocoa trees in the shade of age-old trees on hills facing the sea. To discover the sweet and delicatel aroma of the Liberica, we recommend it, toasted and ground, in small hand-cut bars of chocolate, each containing 4.5% of Liberica coffee.

World-Class Liberica Coffee

$ 22.50

Eco-Friendly Packaging

A Commitment to Sustainability

Living for over 35 years in a plantation, we have learnt to make the most of our resources. Claudio loathes waste. This philosophy you find back in our packaging. It is simple, it should not distract from the quality of the product. It is meant to protect the product and at the same time respect the environment.

Eco-Friendly Packaging

A Commitment to Sustainability

Living for over 35 years in a plantation, we have learnt to make the most of our resources. Claudio loathes waste. This philosophy you find back in our packaging. It is simple, it should not distract from the quality of the product. It is meant to protect the product and at the same time respect the environment.

Know The Source

Finest Chocolate Straight From The Source

At Alegio Chocolate, our cacao is grown and harvested on São Tomé’s volcanic farms, where Claudio Corallo cultivates ancient, non-GMO trees using sustainable, biodynamic practices. We are dedicated to the Raisetrade movement, ensuring local farmers receive fair wages and ethical working conditions, while delivering the finest, purest chocolate, free from bitterness.

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FAQ

Questions and Answers

The Best Serving Temperature for Our Chocolate

When our chocolate is served cold, you taste only about 40% of its potential flavours – which is truly a shame!

To fully appreciate its potential, I recommend enjoying our chocolate between 27°C and 29°C (80°F and 84°F). This seemingly small yet important detail brings out more flavours and freshness in our chocolate.

When a cocoa bean is ground, the resulting granulometry of the cocoa is finer, and its surface is increased, just like chopping parsley.

The finer you process the cocoa bean, the more it is exposed to air, which results in a loss of both flavour and freshness.

Since our chocolate is the result of only grinding the best cocoa beans from Terreiro Velho, our beans are processed and ground as little as possible to maintain their flavour.

Moreover, as our cocoa is processed without adding lecithin or other emulsifiers, lower temperatures dry the consistency of our chocolate and inhibit many of the flavours.  

For this reason, the taste and feel of the very same chocolate is completely
different when it is tasted at 20°C or at 28°C.

At its right temperature, you immediately feel a difference in
the structure. Our chocolate is soft when you cut into it, and
doesn't crack. This is true of all of our chocolate, and is espe-
cially noticeable with the Ubric chocolates, which are thicker
chocolate blocks.

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