BACOLOD CITY – A company is planning to establish a factory that will produce craft chocolates from a rare variety of locally grown cacao plant in Negros Occidental.
CHLOE Doutre Roussel, a cacao and chocolate connoisseur from France, and Ricardo Dominic Lopez, general manager of CY & Sons
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CHOCOLATE TASTING. Chloe Doutre-Roussel (standing), a French cacao and chocolate connoisseur, speaking at the CY & Sons Group chocolate tasting event at the Bob's Cafe in Bacolod on Thursday (Jan. 26, 2023). With a 50-hectare cacao farm in the neighboring Talisay City, it is pushing for the development of the most sought-after Criollo variety to produce mainly Negrense craft chocolate.(Photo courtesy of Glazyl Masculino) BACOLOD CITY - A large-scale cacao farm in Negros Occidental is pushing for the development of Criollo, the most sought-after variety because of its superior aroma, flavor and taste, to bring Negrense chocolate to the global market. Among those planting the variety is the Lopez family's CY and Sons Cacao Farms in Dos Hermanas village in Talisay City, north of Bacolod. "(We) also encourage our government to support the development of the Criollo beans, and Negros Occidental will be known for its rare chocolates, and makers from all over the world will b