Luisa Abram x Caputo's

Luisa Abram is a São Paulo-based chocolate maker founded in 2014 by Luisa and her family, who together oversee every stage of production from cacao sourcing to finished bar. Wild cacao, harvested from centuries-old trees growing along the rivers of the Brazilian Amazon by the riverside communities who live among them.

Each of her creations traces a single river origin, and the differences between them are real. The Juruá, sourced from the far west of the Amazon basin, yields cacao considered among the finest in the world, with flavor notes typically associated with Ecuador, Venezuela, and Peru. Every origin represents years of work: training farmers in fermentation, earning community trust, and paying prices that make continued production worthwhile.

The bars themselves are made with two ingredients: wild cacao and organic sugar. Nothing else. That simplicity is the point. Caputo's Market, a Salt Lake City-based specialty food retailer with a long commitment to sourcing exceptional and ethically produced chocolate, has been one of Luisa Abram's closest collaborators in bringing this work to a wider audience. Their joint Wild Juruá bar is part of Caputo's Preservation Program, an initiative that directly supports the protection of wild cacao and the biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest, keeping a rare and ancient fruit in the hands of the communities who have always known it.