Cocoa in Grenada

At Belmont Estate, approx an hours drive from the capital St George in Grenada, you will find one of the best chocolates in the world.

Here you can see, feel and taste how the chocolates developes from Tree-To-Bar

The cocoa fruit ready to pick

Slized in half

Ready to take the cocoa beans out

Packed in sacks to be transported to the nearby factory

Here in the factory, that I visited (after running around in the forest) the beans are going through a fermentation process for a week.

After that, the beans are put out to dry in the sun for an other week. In case of rain, it's like the center court at Wimbledon; the roofs that you can see in the background are pulled over the beans.

Here comes the bar - My favorite is the 82 % one

Mott is the handsome guy who is managing the project

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