Ura Chocolates Piura Chulucanas 70% Dark Chocolate Bar

40-gram bar - Lima, Peru

Notes from Maile, ChefShop Chocolate Curator

This is my kind of everyday bar (when your "everyday bar" is a 70% bean-to-bar creation...)--it hits all the right notes. The fruit and nut aroma comes first, and the taste never disappoints. I love the bright fruitiness, accented by toasted nut undertones that give it a pleasing well-roundedness. At the Northwest Chocolate Festival it was my first favorite in the line--so easy to enjoy!

About the Bar

In the sun-drenched Chulucanas Valley of northern Peru, an extraordinary cacao thrives in a landscape very different from the lush tropical forests we often associate with chocolate. Piura Blanco is celebrated for its prized pale-colored cacao beans, sometimes called "Piura's Jewel," and Ura brings this distinctive variety to life in their trademark 70% dark chocolate.

The flavor profile offers the rich, rounded sweetness of panela (unrefined cane sugar) alongside notes of ripe fruit. Unlike most of Ura's other origin bars, which receive a light roast, this chocolate is medium-roasted, providing another interesting dimension to its cacao character.

The cacao comes from grower Tito Jiménez at Platanal Bajo, where the plantations are approximately 16 years old. Around 35% of the beans in the cacao pods are white, a characteristic that makes this variety especially prized. For chocolate enthusiasts interested in tasting the differences between Peru's native cacao varieties, Piura Blanco is an essential stop on the journey.

Cacao Origin: Chulucanas, Piura, Peru
Producer: Tito Jiménez (Platanal Bajo)
Cacao Variety: Piura Blanco
Altitude: 231 meters
Roast: Medium
Ingredients: Organic cacao, organic cane sugar, organic cacao butter

About Ura Chocolates

Founded by Luchi, a former finance professional turned passionate cacao explorer and chocolate maker, Ura Chocolates celebrates the extraordinary diversity of Peru's native cacao. Drawing on her studies in cacao chemistry, post-harvest processing, and professional tasting, Luchi seeks out distinctive cacao varieties and the farmers who cultivate them. Each carefully crafted bar is an invitation to discover a different expression of Peru's cacao heritage. 

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