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Dandelion | 70% Dark Chocolate - Kpalimé, Togo

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Product Details

Name: Kpalimé, Togo
Type: Dark Chocolate
Cacao Percentage: 70%
Tasting Summary: nutty, rich, caramelised, smooth

Description: Sourced from Dandelion Chocolate - one of the pioneering names in bean-to-bar chocolate - Tokyo store, this is a single, limited batch that won't be restocked once it's gone. It delivers rich, caramelised cacao up front, with brownie-like depth, a soft cream sweetness, and a lingering caramel finish.

Togo beans carry a natural tannic bitterness from fermentation, and the maker worked carefully to soften that edge without losing the bean's natural fruitiness — landing on a milkier, easier-drinking chocolate that still tastes distinctly of its origin.

Bean Origin: Kpalimé, Togo
Made In: Kuramae, Tokyo, Japan
Size: 56g

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How to enjoy Dandelion Togo chocolate
Fiamma Tip: try it alongside a glass of red wine or a caffè latte for an evening wind-down; hōjicha works well too, its roasted edge softening the bar's natural bitterness.

The Story of Togo Chocolate

This bar exists because two chocolate people got talking after a festival wrapped up in Paris. Dandelion's Greg D'Alesandre had been quietly obsessed with a Togo bar made by his friend Julia Zotter for years, and it turned out the person he was chatting to, Oscar Jonsson, happened to be the one sourcing those exact beans. A few samples later, from a small cooperative near Kpalimé, and Dandelion had its own Togo bar.

The beans themselves come from tiny farms, half a hectare or so, where cacao sits alongside coffee and plantain, and the farmers ferment and dry every batch by hand under banana leaves before it ever leaves the village.

Where is Togo?

Togo is a narrow country in West Africa, sitting between Ghana to the west and Benin to the east, with a short coastline on the Gulf of Guinea. Kpalimé is inland, in the hilly, more fertile southwest of the country near the Ghanaian border - excellent cacao-growing terrain.