Willo Live Resin Chocolate Fondue

Willo’s Chocolate Fondue live resin is a 1 g concentrate from the Toronto brand, and of the five strains Willo makes it in, Chocolate Fondue is the only one marked sativa.

Bred by DNA Genetics from Chocolope and Exodus Cheese

Leafly credits DNA Genetics with the strain, a sativa-dominant cross that sets Chocolope’s uplifting side beside the more relaxing effects and unusual flavours of Exodus Cheese. AllBud names the same parents and gives the ratio as 80% sativa to 20% indica. For the strain overall, Leafly’s header reads 20% THC and 0% CBD; AllBud’s figure is 17% THC, a level it calls moderately high.

Coffee, cheese and a hint of chocolate

Coffee, cheese and chestnut are the flavours Leafly readers pick most, and Leafly’s lab-sourced terpene data ranks caryophyllene first, then limonene and myrcene. AllBud describes a sweet, nutty smell over earth, with a spicy floral note released when the buds are broken apart, and a sweet, skunky chestnut flavour whose very cheesy aftertaste turns pungent on the exhale and lingers. Chocolate does come up in reviews: one Leafly reviewer notes undertones of sweet coffee and chocolate, and one on AllBud says it actually smells like chocolate when fresh.

Leafly’s reviewers report energetic, focused and uplifted more than any other feelings, and Leafly rates its effects as mostly energizing. AllBud’s effect tags include creative, happy and sociable, and it describes a quick, euphoric rush that leaves people energized and focused, followed by a creeping, warm, tingly body buzz.

Fresh flowers instead of cured buds

Live resin starts with plants frozen the moment they are harvested; the drying and curing stage is left out so that more of the living plant’s terpene content makes it into the extract. Willo’s live resin page calls its version a high-end concentrate made from fresh cannabis flowers instead of dried, cured buds, says this preserves the whole flavour profile with complex aromas and flavours, and states a THC concentration of 60 to 70%. Our guide to live resin goes through the production steps and sets it beside other concentrates.

Willo is based in Toronto, where sourcing, production and packaging all happen locally, according to the company’s home page. Live resin is one of five concentrate types in Willo’s store, along with diamonds, shatter, THC crumble and solventless hash rosin. Willo also makes its live resin in Banana Punch and Wedding Crasher, both marked hybrid, and in Pink Rozay and Yoda OG, both marked indica.

Going slowly with an extract Willo rates at 60 to 70% THC

Live resin counts as an extract, and extracts, Health Canada warns on its lower-risk page, run high in THC; it cites kief, hash, shatter and wax by name. Its advice to first-timers and occasional consumers is to pass on them. For anything dabbed or vaped, its timing for inhaled cannabis applies: the first effects arrive inside a few seconds or minutes, and the climb can last half an hour before it tops out.