Tabasco
A cacao growing region in Mexico.
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Mexico's largest cacao producing state, on the humid Gulf lowlands. Production is overwhelmingly smallholder and most of it feeds the domestic market, including the traditional stone-ground drinking chocolate that remains everyday practice.
- Country
- Mexico
- Flavour families
- earthy, nutty
Terroir
Low-lying Gulf coastal plain with high rainfall and a network of rivers, cacao grown under shade.
Flavour character
Often described as earthy and nutty with modest fruit.
InferredSource: ChocolateHQ
Other regions in Mexico
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- MexicoMexico's largest cacao producing state, on the humid Gulf lowlands.
Sources
- ChocolateHQ editorial synthesis — ChocolateHQ(citation identity confirmed; passage not re-read)