New! Ginger Chocolate Mexicano - Certified Organic. Whenever we do chocolate tastings, we find that people love the combination of ginger and dark chocolate. Even better is this blend of organic ginger and Taza's unique stone ground chocolate. Taza fashions dark chocolate in a rustic style using Mexican stone mills to let the bright fruit flavors shine. Part of the Chocolate Mexicano series, this is not just one bar, but actually two 1.35oz disks. Taza's new Mexicano disks boast a higher cocoa content of 70% for the richest stone ground chocolate experience. 2.7oz.

ingredients: Organic roasted cacao beans, organic cane sugar, organic ginger powder.

 PLANET POSITIVES:

+ USDA Certified Organic

+ Direct trade with growers ensures fair wages on the farm

+ Direct trade means reduced carbon foot print since there are no intermediary brokers

+ NewLeaf Chocolates is only six miles from the Taza factory, so we can get our inventory by hybrid car or bike, reducing fuel use and polution.

PROFILE: Taza Chocolate

Taza Chocolate makes unique organic bean-to-bar chocolate in the USA. Their hand-made artisan chocolate is stone ground using traditional Mexican stone mills called molinos rather than extensive refining and conching. The result is a wonderful minimally processed chocolate that retains the vivid fruity character of the raw bean. You can expect a truly unique flavor experience – from the rustic texture to the bright berry notes present in all their bars.

Taza Chocolate follows a direct trade model where they cut out the intermediary cacao bean brokers and deal directly with the growers. By working directly with farmers, they can provide a premium above fair trade and closely monitor the quality of the beans. Even more, the carbon footprint of the supply chain is reduced when all the extra shipping and handling is cut out along with the middleman.