Single-Origin Cacao · A film in five chapters
From podto bar.
Follow one cacao pod from a shade-grown tree in the hills, to a tablet of Ilavu craft chocolate.
01 · The Grove · Under the canopy
It beginson the trunk.
Cacao flowers and fruits straight from the bark. Under a canopy of coconut and areca palms, a small circle of partner farmers grows our cacao slowly, and harvests every pod by hand.
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- partner farms
Shade-grown · hand-harvested.
02 · The Crack
Ripe.Open it by hand.
Before the bean, there is the fruit. Everything that makes the flavour starts here.
02 · Inside the pod
Sweet white pulp.A bitter seed.
“We grow it, ferment it, roast it and taste every single batch.”The Ilavu makers
03 · Ferment · The grove-side fermentery
Flavour isgrown slowly.
Six patient days of fermentation in wooden boxes, right beside the grove, unlock the true flavour hiding in every bean.
03 · Dry
Sun up.Sun down.
Spread thin under an open sky, the beans give their water to the sun and keep their character.
04 · Roast
Heat findsthe flavour.
Beans are gently roasted, stone-ground, conched for days and tempered until the character of the grove comes through in every square.
05 · The Bar · The Ilavu workshop
One pod.One honest bar.
Poured, set and released: a tablet that carries its origin. Grown in the grove, made by Ilavu.