Menakao

72% Dark Chocolate from Trinitario Cacao

A dark chocolate, moderately sweetened, just enough to bring out the intense cocoa taste with its notes of red fruits and citrus aromas. An intense, elegant chocolate with a rich, slightly acidic finish.

The picture shows the portrait of a young man from Mahafaly (Who Makes You Happy): Feared for a long time, these warriors live on the large limestone plateau that borders the southwest coast. This arid region is famous for its great drought and for its rare vegetation made up of thorns. The Mahafaly live in small, manageable groups. The Mahafaly are very skilled in their craft. They are distinguished by wood carving, goldsmithing, and tattoos.

Mena means red in Malagasy . Red like the rich soil and the deposits from the Sambiranao River, red like the cocoa beans, mainly of the Criollo variety, which come from the best plantation on the island. Kao comes from cocoa, of course.

Chocolaterie Cinagra has been producing chocolate since 2006 and only uses local ingredients . Valuable spices such as vanilla, pink pepper and combava, the pepper lime, grow on the island. The chocolates are origin chocolates made from beans from a plantation, exclusively with pure cocoa butter. They are made by hand in small batches.

Producing directly on the island means that the income for Madagascar is four times higher than the mere trade in the beans. The employees work under good conditions and are paid more. You can eat in the in-house canteen, get paid for your commute to work and have health and pension insurance.