The story of a great man

Claudio Corallo was born in Florence in 1951 and began travelling the world at a very young age. At 23, he left for Zaire with a degree in tropical agronomy in his pocket, allowing him to put himself to the test in Africa in the cultivation of cocoa and coffee.

When he moved to the islands of Sao Tome and Principe in the Gulf of Guinea in the 1990s, he consciously created his own micro-universe, divided into two plantations: Terreiro Velho on the island of Principe, where cocoa, Liberica coffee and pepper are grown, and Nova Moca on the island of Sao Tome, where he put himself to the test with different varieties of coffee. Claudio Corallo's products are thus the fruit of thirty years of contact with the land, true creations of an artist, as well as a farmer and a very demanding craftsman.

A unique production philosophy

In fact, Claudio Corallo is the only chocolatier in the world who grows cocoa and produces chocolate in the same place. On the contrary, all industrial chocolates involve processing the fruit in factories far away from where the farming takes place.

Corallo's chocolate is thus the result of grinding the roasted and peeled cocoa beans, without any addition or subtraction. As is often the case, the difficulty lies in the simple things, and subtracting everything possible to get to the purest soul of the cacao is the prerogative of an artist.

Corallo therefore creates chocolates with a soul, which have not yet severed their link with the earth, without disdaining daring creations such as coffee beans grown by him and covered in chocolate.