Cocoa
Fine-flavour beans from the rainforest floor of the Semliki Basin — centrally fermented in cedar boxes for chocolate makers who taste the difference.
The Crop
Fine flavour, born in the Semliki Basin
Our cocoa grows under the forest canopy of western Uganda, where deep, fertile rift-valley soils and rainforest humidity produce beans with a naturally fruity, fine-flavour profile. Pods are harvested at full ripeness and broken within 24 hours.
Instead of leaving fermentation to chance on thousands of small farms, we buy wet beans and ferment them centrally in cedar boxes for 6–7 days — turning by hand, monitoring temperature, then sun-drying on raised beds. The result is a consistent, well-fermented bean, lot after lot.
How We Prepare It
From pod to export bean
Harvest & Pod Break
Ripe pods only, broken within 24 hours of harvest. Wet beans travel to our fermentary the same day — freshness is the first quality gate.
Cedar-Box Fermentation
6–7 days in cedar boxes, turned on schedule and temperature-checked daily. This is where chocolate flavour is made — and where we refuse shortcuts.
Sun-Drying & Grading
Slow drying on raised beds to ≤7.5% moisture, then hand-sorting, cut tests on every lot and grading to export standard.
Buyer Specifications
Cocoa, on paper
Typical export specification — full lot documentation and pre-shipment samples available on request.
| Type | Fine-flavour Ugandan cocoa, centrally fermented |
|---|---|
| Cut test | ≥ 90% well fermented |
| Bean count | ≤ 100 beans per 100 g |
| Moisture | ≤ 7.5% |
| Packaging | 64 kg jute bags, food-grade liner on request |
| Availability | Main crop Oct–Jan · mid crop May–Jul |
| Minimum order | 1 × 20 ft container (~12.8 t) · trial lots on request |
| Samples | 500 g pre-shipment sample by courier, typically within 5 days |
| Documentation | Certificate of origin · phytosanitary · EUDR traceability data |
| Incoterms | FOB Mombasa · CIF destination port on request |
Ready When You Are
Request a cocoa offer
Tell us your volume, destination port and timeline — our trade desk replies within one business day.
