Description
This bar is made with Kokoa Kamili beans from the Kilombero Valley in South-Eastern
Tanzania, a 15-hour car ride from the commercial capital of Dar-es-Salaam. Kokoa Kamili is
an award-winning social enterprise that buys wet, unfermented cacao directly from
smallholder farmers, processes it via centralized fermentation and sun-drying, and exports
high-quality fine-flavor beans. They always pay above market price for the cacao beans, and
the cacao is famous for its predominantly fruity flavour notes.
The Kilombero valley borders the Udzungwa Mountains National Park – and is a wet place!
This is not only due to the floodplains of the Kilombero River, but also because of year-round
rainfall: 1800 mm per year, with a peak of over 400 mm in April. Combined with an average
temperature of 27 °C, the conditions to grow cacao are perfect. Kilombero is an important
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