Dagoba’s new Canacado bar is FT; they even opted for a departure from their normal packaging to advertise it. I’ve read on several web sites that Cluizel’s single origin bars are FT, as well, although I’m not too certain on Ilha Toma. Lake Champlain, I believe, makes an organic cocoa powder that’s FT, but I’m not quite sure.

Just found out another Fair Trade line of chocolates. Ithaca sells both Dark and Milk Chocolates available thru chocosphere.com

Newfy

woz,

here in germany there are a couple of bars i’ve found when shopping at the organic food store. one is mentioned and reviewed here on the site. it has 72% and is made by vivani (www.vivani.de?). i find it tastes ok. not complex. and it is really cheap! 99 eurocents! at least here that is.
i can’t remember the names of the other bars and haven’t tried them yet. one had 85% though. if this interests you further, i could go have a look/taste for you. don’t know whether this stuff is available outside of germany.

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I’ve just been looking at some of the threads about organic chocolate on the forum, and came across this one.

Divine Chocolate is definitely NOT, and never has been, organic. According to their [url="http://www.divinechocolate.com/Templates/internal.asp?NodeID=90181&strAreaColor=Yellow"]FAQ webpage[/url]:

“Cocoa is very prone to diseases, which can quickly spread and wipe out huge areas of cocoa production, and in turn seriously endanger the livelihoods of thousands of farmers. Until enough tests have been done on organically approved pesticides in the Ghanaian context, introducing organic cocoa farming is too high a risk to the Ghanaian economy which relies on cocoa.”

Zotter state that all their products will be organically certified from Mid-October and it is Fairtrade. Their bars look to have some very challenging flavours although I’ve never tasted any.

Here’s a couple of suggestions on the fairtrade search.

Alex Rast mentioned an organic bar by sainsburys on the forum recently. I looked for details on the web and came up with this: ‘Sainsbury’s SO organic Fairtrade Santo Domingo Dark Chocolate’. According to Alex it tastes alot like Domori Chacao Absolut and is only 94p/100g! I’ve not tried it yet but it sounds like it’s likely to be the cheapest and greatest tasting fairtrade bar around. Probably only available in the UK though.

Also, I recently tried the Malagasy Mora Mora bar. Their bars are labelled as equitrade rather than fairtrade. I’m not sure exactly what that means but here’s a quote from their site:

‘Equitably-traded means that we share equitably the added value we generate. We earn international currency and use it to equip Malagasy producers with knowhow and equipment with which to harvest, select and package exciting new flavours.’

Check out their website for more info [url]www.malagasy.co.uk[/url]

I personally really like the mora mora bar which is a typically light and fruity madagascan chocolate with a lovely smooth texture. They also produce another bar called Sambirano which is apparently more robust in flavour although I have not tried it yet. Both bars have been reviewed in chocopaedia.