CLUIZEL SIGNATURE COLLECTION
PLANTATION CHOCOLATES
With its Plantation chocolate bars, the Manufacture CLUIZEL goes to the source to find unique, ancestral notes of great purity. It works on the essence of chocolate.
NOBLE INGREDIENTS
A unique quality commitment, certifying the selection of raw materials for all CLUIZEL products.
100% TRACEABLE COCOA
Rigorously selected cocoa beans from sustainable, fully traceable sources.
SENSORY EXPERIENCE
Visit the plantations and immerse yourself in the fabulous history of chocolate. A complete adventure for the senses, to the four corners of the world.
IN THE COLLECTION
With its Plantation chocolate bars, the Manufacture CLUIZEL goes to the source to find unique, ancestral notes of great purity. It works on the essence of chocolate.
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Plantations
AN AUTHENTIC COLLECTION
WHAT IS PLANTATION CHOCOLATE?
A comparison with viticulture is the best way to understand the uniqueness of a Plantation Chocolate. This designation refers to a chocolate made from Alles cocoa beans from a single plantation.
It was the Manufacture CLUIZEL that invented this designation in 2000. The result is a unique and characteristic taste. This is the ultimate step in the search for the original notes of cocoa beans.
This makes Plantation Chocolate superior to ‘origin chocolate’, where the cocoa beans come from a single country, but also to ‘cru chocolate’, where the beans come from a single region.
It is similar to an estate wine: a single terroir that shapes incomparable aromatic profiles of unrivalled finesse and richness; the specific characteristics of a particular soil are revealed in these profiles that are as complex as they are subtle.
OUR PLANTEURS, OUR PARTENAIRES
For 20 years, each of Our chocolates from Plantation has highlighted its own story and the story of how the Manufacture came to meet the families of the planters with whom it works. The ties that bind them are based on dialogue, respect and constant exchange.
DISCOVER ALL THE SECRETS OF THE PLANTATION COLLECTION
WITH THE IMMERSIVE TASTING EXPERIENCE CREATED BY CLUIZEL
Embark on an initiatory journey through the world of chocolate and discover the complexity of its notes thanks to our immersive tasting experience. Visit the plantations and immerse yourself in the fabulous history of chocolate. A complete adventure of the senses, to the four corners of the world.
OUR PLANTATIONS
Embark on an initiatory journey through the world of chocolate and discover the complexity of its notes thanks to our immersive tasting experience. Visit the plantations and immerse yourself in the fabulous history of chocolate. A complete adventure of the senses, to the four corners of the world.
Born in a jungle of mango trees, the roots of the cocoa trees have imbued this unique flavour, both sweet and exotic. The Plantation takes its name from the memory of this jungle, which was known as Mangamaro: ‘where there are many mangoes’.
Straddling the plains of the Rio Ariari river and the La Macarena nature reserve, the roots of the cocoa trees at El Jardín join those of the surrounding trees and groves, filling the cocoa beans with woody, fruity fragrances.
The tempestuous Atlantic Ocean, all around us, sweeps over the Bahia region, impregnating it with its powerful spray and justifying the intense flavour of this bar. This balancing effect gives rise to the aromatic fermentary note that makes a chocolate so unique.
The equatorial climate and the ocean that besiege São Tomé offer a cocoa enriched with powerful, iodised sea spray and exotic fragrances. The chocolate created by Manufacture CLUIZEL is a mineral hybrid, injected with wild and herbaceous flavours.
In this part of Mexico, cocoa trees grow in the shade of centuries-old Ceibas, the totem trees of the indigenous peoples who once occupied this land. The plantation's unique ecosystem is self-sufficient, producing cocoa naturally imbued with the fragrance of exotic fruits.
Fragrances et saveurs sont le lègue d’un terroir luxuriant et d’un passé généreux. Les arbres de la Plantation La Laguna sont issus des premières exploitations Mayas. Aujourd’hui encore, les échanges racinaires fruitent les fèves tandis que la proximité des chutes les gorge de notes rafraîchissantes.
Fragrance and flavour are the legacy of a luxuriant land and a generous past. The trees at Plantation La Laguna originate from the first Mayan farms. Even today, root exchanges fruit the beans, while the proximity of the waterfalls imbues them with refreshing notes.
A CHOCOLATE DEFINED BY ITS COMPLEXITY
Making Plantation chocolate requires dedication and intransigence. Three factors guarantee its quality and distinctive character: terroir, fermentation and roasting.
Décisive, l’étape de la fermentation est toujours réalisée dans les plantations
Les fèves d’arbres de tous les âges fermentent ensemble. Fraîcheur et douceur jugulent ainsi profondeur et puissance caractérielle. Cet effet balancier accouche de la note aromatique fermentaire qui fait le caractère unique d’un chocolat. Les fèves, ainsi mariées, passent plus de cinq jours dans des caisses de bois clair.
Une torréfaction unique réalisée à la Manufacture
Pour ne pas altérer les multiples notes aromatiques des cacaos et en conserver toute la valeur nutritionnelle, la Manufacture s’est démarquée en mettant au point différents procédés de torréfaction propres à chaque terroir. Lents, plus homogènes et réalisés à basse température, ces procédés ont été développés pour que chaque fève puisse restituer dans son entièreté ses multiples notes. De la même manière, elle se tient à son engagement Ingrédients Nobles qui garantit que seuls du pur beurre de cacao, de la vanille Bourbon en gousse et du sucre sont entrés dans la composition de la recette.
Pour une traçabilité exemplaire, les fèves de cacao sont envoyées depuis les plantations vers les ateliers Normands de la Manufacture directement après qu’elles aient séchées. Chacune des étapes qui jalonnent la confection d’un Chocolat de Plantation est ainsi parfaitement maîtrisée.
HISTORY
70 ANS DE TRAVAIL & DE DÉCOUVERTES
‘The Manufacture CLUIZEL now offers 7 Plantation chocolates made from beans from the four corners of the world: seven dark chocolates and three milk chocolates’.
TEN PLANTATION SHELVES FOR IMPRESSIVE DIVERSITY
Fruits, spices, tobacco, liquorice... sweet, suave or smoky, spicy power, every variation is possible. There are several reasons for this richness. The fermentation and roasting processes naturally play a part in revealing these extraordinary aromatic profiles, but it is the terroir, in the broadest sense, that is responsible for their plurality.
The chocolates from Plantation Vila Gracinda and Mokaya, for example, elegantly reflect the influences of the volcanic soils from which they originate.
EXPLORER OUR PLANTATIONS
The history of Plantation Chocolates now holds no secrets for you. Select the Plantation of your choice to discover the associated Plantation chocolate bar.
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