Ritual chocolate
Siren Song
As blue as the sea. As rare as what lives there.
Cacao butter · Maple · Blue spirulina · Tremella · Ergothioneine
Nectara
Botanical Offerings
Chocolate, tea, and ceremonial cacao.
Accessible daily portals into the Nectara world. They combine function, pleasure, beauty and ritual.
Ritual chocolate
Opal Moon
A chocolate bar with a distinct luminous and lunar identity.
Botanical tea
Thousand Petal Lotus
A floral tea blend and an accessible daily ritual.
Blue, pink & white lotus petals
Ceremonial cacao
Raw Ceremonial Cacao
Whole cacao, minimally processed, prepared as a drink.
Certified organic cacao from Camino Verde, Ecuador
The cacao
Certified organic. Ecuadorian. Fermented with unusual care.
Our cacao is certified organic and comes from Camino Verde in Ecuador — a fermentary outside Guayaquil that buys freshly harvested beans from more than a hundred farms and ferments them centrally, by inoculation, in stacked bags. Vicente Norero runs several differently-inoculated fermentations of the same beans at once and sells them as distinct lots. His cacao has twice been selected among the Cocoa of Excellence Best 50.
Camino Verde
The craft is the fermentation.
Most cacao is judged by where it grew. Camino Verde is judged by what happens in the days after harvest — the window in which almost everything people recognise as chocolate is actually made.
The operation began as an estate at Balao, on the coast of Guayas province. Since 2016 it has worked as a centralised fermentary in Durán, buying fresh unfermented beans from over a hundred farms across Ecuador, and working with grower groups in Esmeraldas and Los Ríos to improve processing and secure better prices at the farm gate.
Fermentation is done by inoculation, in stacked bags in a humidity-controlled room, rather than in the usual wooden boxes. Several differently-inoculated fermentations of the same beans run at the same time and are kept and sold as separate lots — a working method closer to a laboratory than a warehouse.
Selected among the Cocoa of Excellence Best 50 in 2013 and again in 2015, with genetics declared as Nacional × Trinitario.