From bean to bar or brew.

The best chocolate products begin with the best cacao.

When quality and depth of flavor can make or break your recipe, start with Cholaca’s premium cacao. Our journey begins by growing the best beans on the planet. And while what, where and how we grow them makes a difference, 75% of cacao’s characteristics come from the process that follows. Ours is a thoughtful system of harvesting, fermentation, drying and roasting—with attention to detail at every stage.

Cholaca cacao is cultivated with intention at each step in our process.

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Our cacao is grown by small, independent farms throughout the biodiverse Colombian rainforest.

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Cholaca beans are hand harvested at peak freshness and sorted for premium quality.

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Our beans are fermented with care, time and attention for days, then tested for thoroughly.

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We use a unique drying system adapted from tradition and proven to yield a higher quality product.

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As a last step, Cholaca beans are lightly roasted for a premium flavor profile.

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Reasons to create with Cholaca Premium Cacao:

Smooth, balanced, bold flavor

Delivers the highest quality

Easy to use, measure & control

Shelf stable

Available at scale

Socially & environmentally responsible

Complements any product you make

A taste of what you’ll taste.

Our cacao is characterized by a rich chocolate flavor complemented with herbal and floral notes.

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Cholaca brings award-winning flavor to the table.

We partnered with chocolate makers White Label in the creation of a single origin bar made exclusively of Cholaca cacao beans grown and processed in Chaparral, Colombia. We’re proud to share, the bar won Silver in the 2022 International Chocolate Awards, the industry’s equivalent of the James Beard award.

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