{"id":18118,"date":"2017-06-17T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2017-06-16T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T03:09:59","slug":"malagos-chocolate-from-davao-wins-its-5th-international-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/06\/17\/malagos-chocolate-from-davao-wins-its-5th-international-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Malagos Chocolate from Davao wins its 5th international award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Malagos Unsweetened Chocolate won its 5th international award in a chocolate competition recently held at the Academy of Chocolate in London, United Kingdom, a group of industry professionals promoting excellence in fine chocolate-making. The announcement was made on June 05, 2017 on the Academy\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18120\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Malagos-chocolate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">On a Facebook post on June 5, Monday, Malagos Chocolate wrote, \u201cBreaking news! Davao cacao farmers win again at the 2017 Academy of Chocolate competition! This recognition honors all the hardworking farmers in the country. Mabuhay ang magsasakang Pilipino! Malagos Unsweetened Chocolate wins another SILVER\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18119\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/18402723_1412914878765539_595487299107855121_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/18402723_1412914878765539_595487299107855121_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/18402723_1412914878765539_595487299107855121_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/18402723_1412914878765539_595487299107855121_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Malagos\u2019 chocolates are very popular not only amongst the locals but also worldwide. It has been one of the most loved <em>pasalubong <\/em>(souvenir) of tourists and visitors of Davao City. Founders Roberto and Charita Puentespina started their venture into cacao growing in 2003. Today, they produce chocolate that is proudly Philippine-made. A single-origin fine flavour chocolate that is truly tree-to-bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18121\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/12742664_1030785813645116_8075925632993893669_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"903\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/12742664_1030785813645116_8075925632993893669_n.jpg 903w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/12742664_1030785813645116_8075925632993893669_n-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/12742664_1030785813645116_8075925632993893669_n-768x816.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Malagos\u2019 Dark Collection is 100% pure cocoa liquor \u2013 chocolate in its purest form \u2013 and a five time winner of international awards: Silver in the Drinking Chocolate Category and 2 out of 3 stars at the 2016 Academy of Chocolate and Great Taste Awards in London, United Kingdom respectively; won the Silver in the 2015 World Drinking Chocolate Competition organized by the International Chocolate Awards in Hannover, Germany; and in April of the same year, Malagos 65% Dark Chocolate won Bronze for Best Unflavored Drinking Chocolate at the 2015 Academy of Chocolate Awards in London, UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Related articles:\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2017\/04\/22\/be-one-with-nature-at-malagos-garden-resort-davao\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be one with nature at Malagos Garden Resort, Davao<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/location\/davao\/where-to-find-and-eat-the-popular-malagos-chocolate-view-deck-cafe-in-davao\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Deck Caf\u00e9 in Davao<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/25\/phs-first-chocolate-museum-to-open-in-davao-on-december-18\/\" target=\"_blank\">PH\u2019s first chocolate museum to open in Davao on December 18<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>All images grabbed from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/malagos.chocolate\/photos\/a.531215873602115.1073741826.426784227378614\/1412914878765539\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">malagos.chocolate<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/malagoschocolate.com\/our-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">malagoschocolate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dti.gov.ph\/media\/latest-news\/10639-msme-receives-5th-international-award-in-chocolate-competition\" target=\"_blank\">dti.gov.ph<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its another silver for the cacao farmers from Davao City!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Malagos-chocolate-e1497580276990.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18128,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions\/18128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}