Pará
A cacao growing region in Brazil.
Brazilfruityearthy
An Amazonian state that has become Brazil's largest cacao producer since the Bahian collapse. It sits within the species' natural range, and production includes both planted and floodplain-forest material.
- Country
- Brazil
- Flavour families
- fruity, earthy
Terroir
Amazon lowland including seasonally flooded várzea forest, with high rainfall and high genetic diversity in the surrounding wild population.
Flavour character
Amazonian lots can show markedly more fruit than Bahian material.
InferredSource: ChocolateHQ
Two quite different producing systems within one country, and a single Brazilian flavour description would misrepresent both.
Other regions in Brazil
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Part of
- BrazilAn Amazonian state that has become Brazil's largest cacao producer since the Bahian collapse.
Sources
- ChocolateHQ editorial synthesis — ChocolateHQ(citation identity confirmed; passage not re-read)