About Blue Valley Chocolate
The Blue Valley Story
Blue Valley Chocolate is a bean-to-bar chocolate maker in Playa Brasilito, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We grow organic cacao on our own farms, ferment and dry it ourselves, and craft every bar by hand in our Brasilito factory, with no additives and no shortcuts.
But the chocolate is not where we started. We started with the forest.
International Chocolate Awards
Trees Planted
Primary Rainforest Protected
Hectares of Organic Cacao
We began with reforestation, not with chocolate
Blue Valley began with a single question: what crop could fund the restoration of degraded Costa Rican land, permanently and profitably? The answer was cacao. Our farm, Finca Blue Valley in Llano Azul, sat at the base of Tenorio Volcano, unpruned and neglected for years when we took it on. We restored it, replanted it with high-quality known genetics, and turned it into an award-winning producing estate. Our second farm, El Higuerón, is the mission itself. 17 hectares are untouched primary rainforest that we bought specifically to protect, permanently. The remaining land is planted as regenerative, shade-grown cacao woven into biodiverse agroforestry. The cacao pays for the forest, and the forest makes the cacao better.
Mission & Values
Our mission is to set the global standard for sustainable chocolate - and to prove that protecting land and making something world-class are the same act, not competing ones.
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Pure craftsmanship - bean-to-bar chocolate, made by hand with precision.
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Sustainability first - organic farming, reforestation, and zero-waste.
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Ethical & transparent - direct relationships with growers, fair pay, honest sourcing.
Where our cacao comes from
Our flagship Maleku chocolate is made from single-estate Costa Rican cacao grown on our own farms in Llano Azul (Upala) and El Higuerón - fine-flavor Trinitario-lineage cacao, including our proprietary Maleku
selections and professional CATIE, ICS, and TSH clones chosen for flavor and terroir.
Our Blue Valley chocolate line is made in partnership with Costa Rican farmers who grow naturally cultivated cacao in regions like Upala and Limón. We work directly with these growers, and you'll find the name of
the farm each bar came from printed right on the packaging - because traceability only means something if you can see it. Supporting these farmers is part of the same mission: keeping fine-flavor cacao, and the people who grow it, thriving in Costa Rica.
Come see it for yourself
Tour the farm, taste single-origin chocolate at its source, or make your own bar in a real working factory.
Recognition
Blue Valley Chocolate has earned 10 International Chocolate Awards, including Gold for our flagship Maleku line. We are proud of them. But they are the result of the work, not the reason for it.