Standout, Idukki India 70%

Standout Chocolate launched onto the craft chocolate scene in 2018. Fredrik Martinsson, Standout’s founder, has a background in engineering and specialty coffee, and he uses that experience and skillset to craft his award-winning chocolate in Kållered, Sweden. He sources his cocoa beans directly from co-operatives and farmers all over the world, aiming to create “a better world, through social, environmental and economic sustainability for the farmers.”

The green hills of the Idukki region, in southern India, known as the spice garden of Kerala, has long had the climate and ecology to grow cocoa. But it was only in 2016, when GoGround started investing in post-harvest processing facilities and farmer education, that fine-flavour cocoa farming started to grow. Husband-and-wife Luca and Ellen, with the support of the Italian RIVA foundation, have built relationships with the smallholder farmers of Udumbannoor, paying them guaranteed weekly payments in exchange for freshly harvested cocoa beans.

The richness of the hills gives the chocolate a sweet raisin aroma and a rich chocolatey flavor. With notes of juicy red apples, cherry, raisin and hazelnut.

Ingredients: Organic Cocoa beans, Organic Cane Sugar. Cocoa Minimum: 70%

* May contain traces of milk.

Weight: 50g