The Sao Paulo brand Casa Lasevicius won first place in an award promoted by the Bean To Bar Brasil Association; meet the other winners
Last Wednesday (23rd), the first edition of the Premio Associação Bean To Bar Brasil 2024 took place in São Paulo, a competition organized by the entity that brings together chocolate producers, Pariquera-Açu 70%, of the São Paulo brand. Casa Lasevicius has been awarded.
Made with cocoa beans from APTA Pariquera-Açu, a nursery managed by the Department of Agriculture and Supply of the State of São Paulo, in the Vale do Ribeira region, the chocolate has notes of coffee fruit, wood and smoke.
Second place went to Amazônia 70% chocolate from the Sao Paulo brand Priscyla França Chocolates, made with a blend of cocoa beans produced by João Evangelista in Assentamento Tuerê, in the Novo Repartimento (PA), and with Na’kau cocoa, of Manaus. (I AM). Third place went to 70% of the Kalapa Chocolates brand, from Belo Horizonte (MG), produced with cocoa beans produced by Luciano in the Dois Riachões settlement, in Bahia.
The competition
In total, 20 samples of 70% chocolate were presented, made with cocoa produced in different parts of the country. Another peculiarity of the competition is that, obligatorily, all competing chocolates must be available on the market.
Under the coordination of Ensei Neto, columnist for Paladar, the chocolates were evaluated at the Sindicafé headquarters, in the capital of São Paulo, in two phases. In the first, a jury made up of 24 industry professionals blindly analyzed the samples and chose the finalists.
In the second phase, a gastronomic jury made up of the beer sommelière Bia Amorim, the barman Ricado Takahashi, the Japorês of the Beefbar and Song Qi restaurants, Alex Minho, author of the blog Gastronominho, and the Paladar journalist Cintia Oliveira, evaluated the finalists.
Aroma, acidity, bitterness, astringency and finish were some of the evaluation criteria. And, from the sum of the scores of the two groups, the top three classified emerged.
The competition was part of the program of the Chocolate Week Bean to Bar Brasil 2024 event, which began last weekend and brought together a fair, workshops and conferences dedicated to the theme.
Source: Terra
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