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Pump Street Ecuador 85%

Pump Street Chocolate, Suffolk · Pump Street Chocolate

£7.95 per 70g

Comparison basis: per 70g bar · source checked 2026-08-27

Research previewSource status: Corrected from live source · Not yet independently tasted · Licensed category photo, not the exact retail pack

Source status: Corrected from live source
Hacienda Limón 70% was absent from the current catalogue; this in-stock Hacienda Victoria 85% bar is the closest current maker-direct replacement.
Open source checked 2026-08-27 →

Research snapshotFinal score pending

Provisional signals based on product positioning and price comparison. Taste is deliberately withheld until a real tasting.

Rarity6

Taste—

Presentation8

Value signal8

Price Multiplier

Pump Street Ecuador 85%£7.95

Supermarket 70% dark£1.80 per 70g

Posh multiplier4.4×

Category photograph illustrating Pump Street Ecuador 85%; not the exact retail product — Category photo, not exact pack · Simon A. Eugster · CC BY-SA 3.0

Why is it so expensive?

The current maker-direct bar uses cocoa from Hacienda Victoria in Ecuador.
Pump Street makes chocolate in Suffolk from traceable cocoa rather than anonymous commodity couverture.
Its live 70g bar is £7.95; taste remains deliberately unscored.

Would we buy it?

Once

A relatively affordable source-verified candidate for the first tasting batch.

As a habit

At £7.95 it is testable without turning the project into an expense-account opera.

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