Tasting notes: Spices - Golden raisins - Yellow chili pepper - Earthy - Tannin Red pepper - Smoky - medium acidity Variety: Native Piura Criollo white Double your enjoyment with two 40g chocolate bars included. The Piura white cacao beans come from the Piura department, located on the northern desert coast of Peru. This chocolate bar is made with those amazing cacao beans, which are white cacao beans. Historically, there are documents from the 15th and 16th centuries from the Spaniards detailing this cacao variety and this particular region as an origin for premium cacao. Piura has a completely different soil than that found in the jungle; some mountains are low, allowing the Amazon jungle to flirt directly with the desert coast. This makes a unique cacao that is growing in a challenging climate. This Piura cacao variety has adapted to the characteristics of the dry coast and can survive with lower humidity and much lower volumes of water than usual.