
Chocolates Baure
About
For David and Marcela, wild chocolate pioneers in Bolivia, learning about wild cocoa and working in the Bolivian Amazon, went from being a crazy venture to become a project, within which still now dwells a dream. The dream of becoming a world reference when talking about wild organic cocoa.
It all begins when Marcela and David arrive at the village of Baures, they spoke with a lot of people, did surveys and researches looking for ways to learn more about the culture and customs of the inhabitants of this municipality.
Indeed, on February 1st of 2001, SUMAR Ltda. is constituted with the purpose of producing cocoa liquor (cocoa paste) on-site. The new company establishes its production point in this municipality and thus begins to work giving value-added to the wild cocoa, thereby promoting the sustainable development in this region.
Initially the work was 100% handmade, the cocoa bean was wood-roasted, then grinded with small manual machines and finally, small chocolate pastes were molded.
In 2006, CHOCOLATE BAURE is certified as an organic product and wild collection with the seal of Ceres GmbH, certification which remains up to date. This certification launched BAURE CHOCOLATE at national and international fairs and that was the beginning of the relationship with international markets demanding organic products.
In 2009 the first chocolate machines are acquired and obtained first professional training with years of experience in the business, which led to work under standards of excellence. Since then and until today, SUMAR has consistently improved its chocolate processing techniques and has also improved its harvesting and post-harvesting techniques, standardizing the quality of the wild beans in order to achieve the excellence of the chocolate from the tree to the bar.
In 2011 it is established in Santa Cruz a small factory for refining the cocoa liqueur produced in Baures.
In September of 2013, in the town of Baures, the company’s facilities were inaugurated for the processing and benefit of wild cocoa.
Currently it is being produced at Santa Cruz factory: cocoa liquor, chocolate couvertures at different concentrations, chocolate bars and milk chocolate with almonds to supply the national and lactation subsidy.
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