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.

Other Origin Chocolates

We also stock a range of delicious chocolate buttons in our shop made with cocoa beans grown in different countries including;

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

Ecuador: a smooth 71% dark chocolate made with the Cacao Nacional bean with distinctly floral taste notes.

Madagascar: a slightly sweeter 66% dark chocolate made with Trinitario beans with red berry fruit notes and available in very small buttons, so perfect for cooking with.