About Utopia
Utopia has won thirty-five awards for its uncompromising flower, edibles, and extracts in the 7 years since its inception.
Based out of Santa Cruz, California Utopia is focused on flowers, edibles, and extracts free of chemicals, additives, and pesticides. With full transparency on their preparation methods, each product’s ingredients, and the results of their rigorous lab testing, Utopia prioritizes reliability and dependability across their product line. From environmentally-conscious practices to provide all their workers with living wage, Utopia takes responsibility for their social impact and makes monthly charitable donations.
For the company’s delicious, intoxicating edibles, Utopia consciously chooses wholesome ingredients for a wide range of dietary accommodations. Its fabulous chocolate, chocolate chip, vanilla, raspberry, and (my personal favorite) peanut butter macaroons are all raw, vegan, gluten-free, low glycemic, paleo, and kosher friendly while also being the best priced for the quality. A product should (and really could) never define our self worth but Utopia edibles are one of those luxuries that make you feel like you’re doin’ alright and like Mary Tyler Moore you’re gonna make it after all.
Utopia’s flower imputes similar sense of well-being with its well-defined cannabis options. Beyond broad stroke strain categorization, Utopia digs deeper into each flower’s primary tasting notes, effects, and predominate terpenes. Wonka Bars and C Banana round out a fun, off-beat strain selection that has won them hardware at The Emerald Cup, HempCon, and the High Times Cannabis Cup to name a few. As the fantastic mystical base for the lovely concentrates we have before us today, Utopia’s flower provides a well-needed sophisticated, understated tone to the hyper-psychedelic insignia of today’s cannabis shelves.
Highlights
Utopia’s Monterrey facility on California’s Central Coast uses an onsight one-of-a-kind extraction process to keep a mindful eye on their craft quality concentrates. With this eye towards detail, Utopia insures their live resin and sauce remain High Terpene/ High Cannabinoid Full Spectrum Extracts (HTE/HCFSE). Or, in other words, that the best, most effective true-to-plant components of the flower (the terpenes, flavonoids, and cannabinoids found in the plant’s trichome glands) are preserved in the final product.
With no additives or additional distillate, Utopia uses refined medical grade solvent-based practices to achieve their essence capturing concentrates. Utopia calls on both tried and true strains along with lesser-known blends to pepper their wide panoply of concentrate textures and styles. King Louis OG comes in spreadable sauce while Tropaya x Chem Dawg shines in diamonds and the Apple Fritter featured here offers the comforts and joy of sugar. So what exactly do all these different denominations means?
Sugar, Sauce, and Diamonds (as well as budder, badder, and shatter) speak to the texture of the dab-able concentrate as well as provide some information on how we got there. The small, spritely cannabis genies that live in gnarled but lively tree trunk here at Emjay have delineated all you need to know about these concentrates and more. Although these may seem confusing at first, the most important thing to remember is that the naming is giving you the most important info. Concentrate “sugar” is highly potent plant magic minus the plant matter with the appearance of our favorite baking ingredient. There’s no wrong way to dab, so give it a try and be a lamp unto yourself on what you like.