Qantu

Qantu

A flower synonymous with unity and hospitality

The story of Qantu began ten years ago in Cusco, Peru, when two young travellers, Elfi and Maxime, met by chance and fell in love. In 2014, during their first visit to a plantation in Alto El Sol in northern Peru, they discovered the immense passion and pride of the farmers who grow cacao and the bean to bar chocolate with its flavours so powerful and different from one bar to another. She comes from a cocoa-producing country; he comes from a country where chocolate is mainly consumed. The perfect union: 1 + 1 = 2. In the summer of 2016, the dream came true: in Montreal, Canada, Elfi and Maxime opened their chocolate workshop. The name Qantu is a powerful symbol for Elfi and Maxime, synonymous with unity and hospitality, it is the name of the national flower of Peru and Bolivia. Like the place where they met, this flower is native to the Peruvian Andes. The word Qantu, which derives from the native language Quechua and is pronounced “Kantu”, encapsulates the spirit of their adventure: the encounter between cultures, the power of love and the purity of cocoa that unites different worlds.