Spain has yet to join in any earnest way the burgeoning craft chocolate movement which see barsmiths sprout, especially in North America & the rest of Europe, like invasive weeds. It probably thinks it has no need to prove itself since Spain was the first country to import cacáo / cocoa from its Americas homeland back in the early 1500s.

Then again, things happens / times change & now Spain lags behind.

On the face of it, these 3 bars from Banus represent the Nuño de Guzmán of chocolates; he the dreaded conquistadore & later colonial rogue equally despised by companions & competitors. His only social grace seemed a “refined hypocrisy”. Perhaps most demeaning among his many notorious acts: enslaving Amerinds & branding them in the face. Evil.

But beneath their hideous appearance lies the sweetness of child… hoping to make good someday.