Depetris Riccardo

Depetris Riccardo - Cioccolato Del Monviso Peru Chuncho Cuzco, 75%

75 g Dark Chocolate
Regular price €10,95 EUR
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Ranked in the Top 100 Chocolates in the World.

Origin & Craftsmanship

 This bar is part of Depetris Riccardo / Depetris…i Ciculaté's Cioccolato del Monviso line, made bean-to-bar in Revello at the foot of Mount Monviso, Piedmont. The cacao at its heart is Chuncho — one of the oldest and most genetically isolated varieties in Peru, grown in the Urubamba Valley of the Cusco region at altitudes up to 1,000 metres, in the same highland corridors the Inca once travelled between the Andes and the jungle. Depetris selects the beans directly, processing them in-house through every stage — roasting, grinding, refining, conching — on equipment that includes Monviso stone in the milling process, grounding the tropical origin literally in Piedmontese terroir.

Flavor Profile

 Chuncho cacao at 75% is characteristically complex without aggression — expect dried fruit and subtle nuttiness in the top notes, with a smooth, rounded body and a long, clean finish. The high altitude of the Cusco plantations and the age of the trees contribute a depth that distinguishes Chuncho from lower-grown Peruvian origins. The result here is a dark chocolate that rewards slow tasting: structured but not austere, single-origin but accessible.

Tasting & Pairing Guide

 Allow a small piece to melt slowly rather than chewing — the layers open up over 30–40 seconds. Pairs well with a medium-roast filter coffee from a washed Latin American origin (Colombia or Guatemala), where the shared stone-fruit and nut notes create a clean harmonic. For something contrasting, try alongside aged Parmigiano Reggiano — the umami and salt snap the chocolate's sweetness into focus. A light, dry Amarone or aged Nebbiolo also works, echoing the dried-fruit register of the cacao.

Summary

 The Peru Chuncho Cuzco 75% is Depetris at his most classically single-origin — no inclusions, no aromatisation, just an exceptional ancient-variety cacao from the highlands of Cusco, processed with the precision and patience of a maker who has spent years understanding what his equipment and terroir can draw out of fine beans. For those who want to taste where chocolate comes from.

Vegan, Dairy-free

Riccardo Depetris grew up inside a pastry workshop — his parents have been operating in confectionery in the Cuneo province of Piedmont for over four decades. That apprenticeship never really ended. He trained formally at hotel school, then spent years travelling through France, Spain, Germany and the United States absorbing new markets, techniques and flavour sensibilities before returning to Revello to run the historic Pasticceria Del Viale — Depetris i Ciculaté with his brother Mario.
Riccardo's craft is rooted in Piedmontese tradition: the region's famed hazelnuts, the peaches of Revello, the local herbs and mountain fruits that grow at the foot of Monviso. But his approach is anything but backward-looking. He was among the first Italian chocolatiers to work bean-to-bar at an artisan scale, believing that handcrafted processing at each stage best preserves the organoleptic character of exceptional cacao.
The Cioccolato del Monviso line was born out of a long research project — a tribute to Mount Monviso, the solitary limestone peak that rises above the Po Valley and is the defining symbol of Piedmont. Each bar in the range is a dialogue between the mountain's altitude and geography and the tropical origins of cacao.
The Viola Mirtillo — with its hand-picked local violets and wild blueberries — is that dialogue at its most precise: an entire alpine landscape, compressed into a single bar.
Riccardo is also a teacher at ICIF and multiple hotel institutes across Piedmont, a technical consultant to chocolate machinery manufacturer Selmi, and a multi-awarded competitor at the International Chocolate Awards, where his work has accumulated gold, silver and bronze medals across more than a decade of competition.

Cocoa beans, sugar, cocoa butter.

Our chocolate makers proudly refrain from using any artificial stabilizers or preservatives in their products, making their creations more temperature-sensitive compared to other premium chocolates.

To ensure the optimal taste experience, it's advisable to store our chocolates in a cool, dry place where the temperature hovers between 16°C and 18°C. Please refrain from refrigerating our chocolates, as this may cause sugar crystallization due to increased humidity, altering their texture and flavor.

On the contrary, if stored in excessively high temperatures, cocoa butter may separate and form a white film on the chocolate's surface. This loss of cocoa butter can lead to the chocolate drying out and, consequently, a potential alteration in flavor. Your mindful storage practices will help preserve the integrity of our delectable chocolates.