Introducing Ama! A new blend joining our collection of premium cocoa from Ghana with a unique sensory profile.

It was born out of our curiosity to uncover how different soils, farming practices, and fermentation methods shape the final character of the bean. Together with our farming community in Asante Akim, we spent years of fieldwork, careful craftsmanship, and countless tastings to see how subtle changes can bring out new layers of flavour

For generations, Ghana’s reputation for exceptional cocoa has been built on traditional heap fermentation methods. With Ama, we take our first step beyond that tradition, adopting the approach of centralized box fermentation. Fresh wet beans from a single farming community are brought together and fermented in wooden boxes for six days, with two carefully timed turnings. Compared with traditional heap fermentation, the boxes retain heat more evenly, creating a more controlled environment.

This process opens up a different flavour direction, resulting in a cocoa with greater consistency and a distinctive flavour profile designed specifically for chocolate makers looking for something beyond conventional West African cocoa.

Ama combines a rounded cocoa body with vibrant fruity acidity and a clean sweet finish.

On the raw bean: Aromatic, playful yellow fruit acidity, lifted by honey and melon sweetness and lingering herbal tea notes.
Once transformed into cocoa liquor, it deepens: Chocolate brownie, bergamot jam, dry cranberry, tart rhubarb, and euphoric jasmine perfume.
On the finish: Fruity acidity, long-lasting nutty sweetness, and aromatic cocoa.

Ama is particularly well suited to elegant single-origin bars, thanks to carefully managed post-harvest processing. Its complexity, meanwhile, adds a new dimension to thoughtful blends. Instead of the coconutty notes the origin is known for, it offers a brighter, more nuanced expression, distinctive and genuinely TMC.

As with every cocoa in our collection, Ama is fully traceable and organically grown, rooted in long-standing collaboration with the farmers who cultivate it and in the belief that great cocoa begins with healthy farms, careful craftsmanship and trust.

Ama is named after a much-loved companion who kept us company through those uncertain Covid years. It is a small tribute to the comfort, resilience and curiosity that carried us through as Three Mountains Cocoa found its footing.

AMA
Purrr…ely TMC. With a twist of its own.

We can’t wait to see what you make of it.
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