Grand'Anse
A cacao growing region in Haiti.
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A department in south-western Haiti and one of the country's main cacao areas. It is where the shift from selling unfermented beans to centralised fermentation has been most visible, and where fermented Haitian cacao first reached the speciality market.
- Country
- Haiti
- Flavour families
- fruity, nutty
Terroir
Mountainous peninsula with smallholder plots in mixed cultivation alongside fruit and timber trees.
Flavour character
Properly fermented material is often described as fruity with a nutty base.
InferredSource: ChocolateHQ
The unfermented grade from the same trees is flat and astringent. The difference is post-harvest handling.
Related
Part of
- HaitiA department in south-western Haiti and one of the country's main cacao areas.
Sources
- ChocolateHQ editorial synthesis — ChocolateHQ(citation identity confirmed; passage not re-read)