Cacao from the Dominican Republic is the best in the world; win prize in London

The bar of the Hispaniola, this is the name of the chocolate bar made with organic cocoa beans from the Dominican Republic, which beat several world heavyweight chocolate companies such as Akesson from England, Amedei from Italy and Michel Cluizel of France.

More than 580 different chocolates from around the world have been introduced in the first stage of the competition, in the spring, and were judged by more than 40 chocolate experts. In addition to a gold bar Hispaniola, Hummingbird also won three silver and one bronze in prizes.

The company Almonte’s tiny Hummingbird Chocolate has been awarded with the best bar chocolate in the world.

In a ceremony organized by the Chocolate Academy in London at the end of the week, the Hispaniola de Colibrí bar surpassed 14 other winners in the world to win the coveted “Golden Bean” award, the first Canadian company to win the prestigious award.

Said Erica Gilmour, who started the company with her husband Drew, in 2011.

“He gave us the night before that we had won.

” The prize, a grain of gold on a pedestal, will be sent to Gilmours.

Meanwhile, Hummingbird now manufactures bars from different countries, such as the cocoa beans of the hispaniola, the Caribbean island that includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which first convinced Drew Gilmour, a former aid worker, who put himself to the test of chocolate The Gilmours, who live in Stittsville, are former international aid workers; What do cocoa beans matter directly in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Vietnam.

“That’s why we are so grateful for the excellent cocoa grown by farmers in the north of the Dominican Republic.”