This variety of cocoa tree originally comes from the island of Trinidad, which is also its namesake.

Up until 1727 only Criollo cocoa trees were cultivated on Trinidad. Cocoa tree diseases and epidemics, as well as a natural catastrophe, destroyed huge swathes of the trees at that time. When people once again began to replant them, they mainly used Forastero cocoa from the east of Venezuela. The reason for this is that this variety is more productive and robust than Criollo.

The crossing and natural hybridising of the remaining Criollo trees and imported Forastero trees resulted in the Trinitario tree. It combines the robustness of consumer cocoa, Forastero, with the flavours of fine cocoa, Criollo. Due to its pleasant aromatic taste and because it is not very bitter or sour, it is considered to be a fine cocoa.

We use 11 different chocolate masses to carefully adapt each RITTER SPORT square to its other ingredients. In doing so, each square can develop its own individual taste. We round off 8 of these 11 masses with fine cocoa from Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and Ecuador. After centuries of cross breeding, cocoa beans today are no longer only categorised according to their varieties (Criollo, Forastero, Trinitario). Just like wine, they are categorised according to their place of cultivation. That is why the term fine cocoa is generally used rather than Trinitario or Criollo.