venezuela's el rey: prized milk chocolates El Rey Venezuelan Single Bean Origin cacao beans are rare, prized and coveted. Just as winemakers carefully select their grapes, El Rey chooses the world's most flavorful and aromatic regional Criollo and Trinitario cacaos. Its milk chocolates are distinctive and rich. Caoba, Carnero Superiore, 41% cacao This fluid, smooth "dark" milk chocolate carries caramel, nut and earthy flavors. From groves of cacao trees that began in the 1600s. Irapa, Rio Caribe, 40.5% cacao Of high-quality Trinitario beans, Irapa grows along the Caribbean coast and along the Orinoco River. Added brown sugar and malt produce a rich caramel flavor. (Enjoy your El Rey chocolates in good conscience. A "Fair Trade" company, El Rey pays a premium for its cacao beans, to help support small and large farmers, through a democratically-run cooperative that El Rey founded. It also promotes and teaches organic, sustainable cacao agriculture.) $16.00 Select one (sold by the pound): CaobaIrapa Quantity: Chocolat Céleste creates chocolate delicacies for the connoisseur. Our award-winning truffles and gifts are based on devotion to artistic presentation and flavor perfection. Every day, our chocolatiers craft each piece using the finest ingredients. We use premium European chocolate made from “first cut” cacao beans from around the world. And we continually search for rare and emerging cacao estates from which we can source. To this foundation, we introduce the best ingredients: fresh artisanal cream and butter; and the marketplace's finest liqueurs, nuts, fruits and spices. The secret to our success is allowing the natural flavor notes to take center stage. We never use preservatives.