Annedore’s has the rarest chocolate, but you can’t taste it … yet

A month ago, The New York Times reported on a discovery made two years ago of a rare cacao tree, the Nacional, in Peru. The Nacional was thought to be extinct after pure varieties of the tree had succumbed to disease in Ecuador — the world’s largest producer of cacao.

The chocolate made from Nacional cacao beans is also rare — and expensive. But local master chocolatier Aaron Dearinger, of Annedore’s Fine Chocolates at 5006 State Line, really wanted to taste it.