The 100 year chocolate, Komuntu 80%

Created with you, for you

To celebrate our 100 th anniversary, we have created Komuntu 80% with you. The Komuntu couverture came to be when a group of ethically-minded people got together to create the ultimate representation of responsibly made chocolates.

Our whole supply chain has helped create Komuntu 80%'s flavor. Valrhona's 100-year anniversary couverture tells the story of all the people we have met around the world. The blend of cocoas has a singular aromatic character, with a powerful bitter woody flavor underpinned with notes of toasted nibs.

The result of ethical collaboration and hard work

From cocoa-producing partners to suppliers, co-workers and customers, people from every part of our value chain have collaborated together to make this dark chocolate, which symbolizes all the work completed over the past 100 years to make the world a better place.

Its name evokes the strong link that binds our collective together, giving a sound and a rhythm to the meaning behind our work. Komuntu is a combination of “Komunumo”, which means “community” in Esperanto, and “Ubuntu”, an African word encapsulating the idea that “I am because we are”.

Packaging by Deborah Desmada

As a symbol of everything that is joyful about our diversity, the patterned look on the packaging comes in the vibrant colors typical of our cocoas’ countries of origin. The gustatory voyage it represents is brought to life beautifully by the French-Madagascan artist Deborah Desmada.

Her openness to world cultures illuminates her color palette and feeds into her technique in which oil pastels and digital painting fuse together to create a world where the imagination is allowed to run wild. The best talent we could have hoped for to bring Komuntu to life.

A responsible chocolate

Komuntu is the physical embodiment of our commitment to a fair, sustainable chocolate industry and creative, responsible gastronomy, we are redistributing all the profits it makes during our 100th anniversary year to cocoa producers.

TO DATE, WE HAVE RAISED €189.556,70 IN DONATIONS.

Check back with us in late 2023 to find out how much we have raised and the projects we are funding in farming communities.

Explore the Komuntu range

Let us inspire you

We have shared the past 100 years with expert professionals and chocolate enthusiasts, and they are the ones who have helped make the Komuntu couverture extra-special to mark this anniversary. Using original recipes, they tell us a story of commitment through expert skills that allow them to bring out the best in this intense chocolate.

We will be exclusively revealing some of their creations. To discover all the available recipes, please contact your Valrhona contact.