The Beniano, that grows endemically in the Bolivian Amazonas, was named after the river where it thrives. The very small beans that weigh just about the half of usual cacao beans, account for the fruity and flowery aroma of the Original Beans Beni Wild Harvest 66% chocolate. Because of their small size, they do not fit the industry norms and machines, but they are exceptionally tasty – small and delicious like wild strawberries.

Made up of savanna, forest and rivers, the Beni is an archipelago of 40 forest islands called ‘chocolatales’, the chocolate islands. For centuries, our indigenous collectors have sustainably harvested the tiny, rarest of rare Beniano beans which can often only be reached by boat. Overhead, the last 400 blue-throated Macaws courier cacao seeds in vivid flight.