Piura, Unscored
Fifteen bars from one Peruvian region, and not a single member has weighed in yet.
By Rami
The archive holds fifteen bars traced to Piura, a region in northern Peru where some makers source a naturally pale cacao sometimes called Piura Blanco. Pump Street names a specific farm, Don Ramon's La Pareja. Cacaosuyo and Maraná each put the region front and center in the bar's name. ORFEVE goes further and specifies Alto Piura, the higher-altitude growing area within the region. The percentages run from 70% to 82%, which is a wider spread than you might expect from fifteen bars sharing a single origin. What the catalog cannot tell you is how any of them taste, because the review count across all fifteen sits at zero. No squares scored, no notes left. That is not a verdict. It is an open door. Piura has fifteen bars waiting for a first opinion, and the member who sits down with one of them gets to write the record from scratch.
