Silva-cacao

🌿 🇬🇹 GUATEMALA CACAO — A Fingerprint 🫆 Unlike Any Other!

There are origins you work with. And then there are origins that work on you. Guatemala is the latter — and it holds a very special place in our hearts at Silva Cacao.
From the misty rainforests surrounding Laguna Lachuá in Alta Verapaz, where Q’eqchi’ Maya communities have been growing cacao for centuries, to the Pacific Coast farms rediscovering an ancient heritage — we are proud to present our most complete and curated range of Guatemalan specialty cacao ever.
10 lots. 4 regions. One extraordinary story.

What makes our Guatemala range truly unique?

🌱 EUDR-ready — all lots GPS-linked and fully compliant

📍 Fully traceable — QR-linked origin data from farm to workshop

🏆 Award-winning quality — internationally recognised microlots

🌳 Carbon-positive farms — active forest restoration & biodiversity corridors

🧬 Exceptional flavours — centuries-old Maya cacao culture meets modern post-harvest science

🤝 Direct farmer partnerships with Q’eqchi’ Maya families at the heart of the Lachuá lot

❤️behind every lot: an exceptional team in the field — bringing technology, innovation and long-term partnerships that make the difference.



↗️ Full story & complete portfolio: link in bio

🇹🇭 THAILAND PART II | BY FARMERS FOR FARMERS

Some origins are shaped by rules. Others are shaped by experience. We can’t be happier to announce our partnership with .collective !

💎 CHUMPHON COLLECTIVE represents a farmer led cacao movement in Southern Thailand — where post harvest isn’t fixed, but responsive, and flavour is shaped in real time.

🌱 At SILVA Cacao, we value systems where farmers lead, adapt and decide. Together with the Chumphon Collective, we are proud to bring a cacao expression that speaks clearly of its place, its people and its resilience.

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NA NOD CHUMPHON 1
A farmer led adaptive expression
Flavour profile
🌿 bright lemongrass
🍏 green apple acidity
🍌 caramelised banana
🍍 yellow fruits
🌰 a persistent nutty undertone

📍Sourced from family farms in Na Nod, Southern Thailand, this microlot is grown within a highly diverse agroforestry system — cacao intercropped with banana, durian, mangosteen, coconut, rubber, palm sugar and local herbs.
In a region defined by heavy rainfall and shifting conditions, fermentation and drying are continuously adapted — not standardised.
Here, cacao is shaped through observation, experience and collective knowledge.
Led by Mr. Chok Petchdang, a producer and community leader within Chumphon Collective, who oversees pod collection, farmer coordination and quality control across Southern Thailand. A system where farmers are not suppliers — but decision makers.
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CHUMPHON COLLECTIVE is built on transparency, direct payments and community investment. From fair wages to free art and cacao education programs for children, impact isn’t added — it’s embedded.
Traceability is structured and clear, following cacao from extended family farms through post harvest adaptation — from harvest to drying, with integrity intact.
This is cacao shaped by farmers, for those who care about flavour with depth, movement and meaning.

✨ Curious?
→ Reach out for samples
Thailand doesn’t do standard 🩷🇹🇭
Neither does farmer led cacao.
Raise your bar.

🇹🇭 THAILAND PART I | TWO MICROLOTS SAILING ⛵️

Thailand is not one flavour. It’s an origin in motion — shaped by soil, climate, people and real time post harvest craft. And today, we are genuinely proud — and excited — to bring two new Thai cacao identities to the market: Nakhon & Pen Thai. These microlots capture a country where cacao is still being written.
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NAKHON SI THAMMARAT
🏅 COEX 2025 — Gold Medal
A grounded, composed and deeply refined expression.
Flavour profile
🌰 roasted nuts
🍯 caramel
🍂 dried fruits
🌸 delicate floral undertones
🍫 a clean, lingering chocolaty finish
Built across 38 smallholder farms in Southern Thailand, shaped by mineral rich red soils, humid tropical conditions and disciplined post harvest control.
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PEN THAI PHATTHALUNG
🥉 International Chocolate Awards 2025 — Asia Pacific Bronze
A bright, gently sweet and lifted cacao with clarity.
Flavour profile
🍑yellow fruits
🍇dried fruits
🌰 soft nutty notes
🍫 mellow chocolate tones

📍Rooted in the wetlands of the Thale Noi basin and led by Ms Pen, who controls the full journey from tree to bean across 17 family farms.
Humidity, water influence and adaptive fermentation shape a fruit forward profile that stays clean and expressive.
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Both microlots are the result of our origins partners work: .io frontline work with farmers, where flavour development, agroforestry and long term resilience are non negotiable, powered by — satellite verified farms, fermentation logs, QR based traceability — not complexity, but clarity.
And as we speak, these cacao lots are sailing from Thailand to Belgium!

✨ Curious ❓
→ Reach out for samples
→ Or come taste them with us at ShowColat, Bordeaux
📍 SILVA Cacao | Booth 59 | 1–3 May