Our Ingredients

Chocolate

The world of fine chocolate is a wonderful one full of glorious beans such as criollo, trinitario, cacao nacional & carenero superior, all grown in exotic equatorial countries, each creating chocolate with very different, complex flavour notes which are also influenced by how it is grown, harvested & processed…similar to wine & quite fascinating. We work with various different fine origin chocolates for their different properties & we hope you enjoy the resulting taste sensations.

Venezuela

Ethically sourced “carenero superior” bean origin chocolate made from cocoa bean to couverture chocolate in Venezuela by an independent company who pay above-market prices for their cacao beans from the Aprocao co-operative.
The dark chocolate grades (70% + cocoa solids) have wonderful earthy notes, the rich milk chocolate has very high cocoa solids content of 41% and the white chocolate is both aromatic & full of cocoa flavours as, unusually, it is made with undeodorised natural cocoa butter.

Tanzania

An intense yet soft, fruity chocolate (75% cocoa solids) with a clean smooth finish made with Trinitario cocoa beans from cocoa farmers with small holdings, of average 200 trees each, in the Kyela district in the south of Tanzania.

Ghana

We also work with an FLO (Fairtrade Labelling Organisation), approved milk chocolate with certification no: 1441, made with fairly traded cocoa beans from Ghana (34% cocoa solids) & fairly traded raw cane sugar from Paraguay. Although there is much debate about the quality of beans coming out of West Africa amongst top chocolate makers, this is the best ethical chocolate from there that we have come across - it has good cocoa flavour notes & has proved popular in our tastings sessions.