January 2012 Cacao Connoisseur’s Club Selection
Name: Papouasie 75%
Producer: Francois Pralus, France
Origin: Papua, New Guinea
Cacao Connoisseur’s Club Liner Notes
Papua, New Guinea, North
of Australia. Seventy-five percent
and yet curiously sweet.
Smooth like silk, roasted dark,
bitter-rich notes of almond butter
gather in the cheeks and eaves
of the mouth, sidle sinuously
into the throat, curiously dark
and sweet and vibrant.I met Francois Pralus
in New York in 2009.
Years making chocolate,
and still the vigor and intensity
of a youth new to his trade
permeate, fill those in his
presence with a passion,
curiously dark and sweet
and vibrant.