The Chocolate Farmer

The Chocolate Farmer is rated 3 out of 5 in the category food production. Read and write reviews about The Chocolate Farmer. Juan Laura and his family have grown and maintained heirloom cocoa for more than 40 years in the Upper Amazon Rainforest in the Apurimac-Ene River Basin - Peru. Today, the Laura family offer craft, Single-Plantation, and Tree-To-Bar aromatic dark chocolates. As cocoa bean fermentation master artisans, they get each heirloom variety to express their unique sensory profiles in single-selection chocolate bars. Unveiling the hidden potential of cocoa, Mr. Laura is developing in chocolate what has traditionally been done with fine wines, as a way to conserve cocoa genetic diversity and the rainforest where it is originally from.