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Ahhh AMEDEI Tuscany from Italy, how sweet you are! A world renowned chocolate maker with many fans, Cecilia Tessieri, founder of AMEDEI, is devoted to making the best chocolate. “Quality without compromise”.
Chocolate makers for over 20 years, they believe “The company’s development comes from hard work and professionalism pursuing excellent standards at the same time combining tradition and innovation.”
She has traveled the world to locate and purchase the best fine flavour beans in order to produce the best chocolate possible. Honing her skill over many years through training and development, she now uses her outstanding craftsmanship to create award winning bars. AMEDEI has been awarded the “Golden Bean” Award in the bean to bar category from the Academy of Chocolate.
The AMEDEI collection is large and we have hand picked an assortment to offer our customers a little bit of everything. Choose from blended, single origin, flavoured, in white, milk and dark chocolate bars.
AMEDEI puts in a little additional cocoa butter and vanilla to their bars resulting in a smooth mouth-feel every time and a sweetness to even the darkest bar. First time customers to the store who have had AMEDEI before are always thrilled to see it on our shelves!
Baianí Chocolate has a long history in the world of cacao. The owners, Juliana and Tuta Aquina, are descendants of two families that have been cultivating cacao in Brazil since the late 19th century! Both of their families farmed the cacao grown on the Vale Potumuja farm and it is here that the cacao is grown to make the Baiani chocolate bars. Thus they are “farm to bar makers”.
The cacao is cultivated in the middle of Bahia’s Atlantic Forest, a region with one of the richest biomes and diversity of fauna and flora in the world! The result is a cacao rich in flavour and unique to cacao. With the use of local ingredients and recipes, the Bainaí bars are created by Juliana to reflect the flavours of Brazil. One such bar is Caipirinha 65% Dark. The cacao nibs are aged in cachaça, the sweet, spicy fruity clear liquor used to make Caipirinha, a popular Brazilian drink. The chocolate is made form these nibs and then lemon juice and sugar are added for a true Brazilian experience! One of the many bars we have from this wonderful chocolate maker.
All bars are soy free, tree-to-bar single origin cacao beans.
A family business for generations, Chocolat Bonnat has been making chocolate confections in Voiron, France since 1884. But it was almost 100 years later in 1983 that they ventured into the chocolate making side of things working with single origin cocoa beans from parts of Asia and Africa; and investigating other countries as the search for more fine flavour, more rare, beans.
The chocolate is smooth and creamy and the bar size is large at 100 grams. Each bar is named for the region of the beans and currently we carry Venezuela origins as well as Ecuador dark bars. The dark milk bars are super interesting! Surabaya Indonesia has a smoky more intense flavour and the award winning Morenita Mexico bar is so creamy with notes of caramel.
Bars are soy, gluten free and Kosher Parve.
On the west coast of the US, Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate is making some amazing chocolate in their small factory in Eureka, California.
These two very talented guys, Adam Dick and Dustin Taylor, take the same approach to making chocolate as they do with making furniture. Yes, they do that too! Using raw organic cacao and sugar they take their time coaxing flavours from their single origin ethically sourced beans and the result is award winning chocolate that we are happy to have in our line up of outstanding bars.
If it is a single origin, plain dark bar you’re looking for, Dick Taylor has made award winning bars using cacao beans from Belize, Madagascar and Brazil. Using these wonderful bars as a starting point, they then add flavours like Vanilla Milk, Espresso, Fleur de Sel, Black Fig and Brown Butter Nibs & Sea Salt bars that are an amazing self indulgence or a fabulous gift for the discerning chocolate fan.
No gluten or soy in this chocolate.
Adding to our collection of International partners, FJAK Sjokolade (Chocolate) creates their small batch bars in a small factory located in Hardangerfjord, Norway. As the first bean to bar chocolate maker in Norway, owners Agur and Siv are hand crafting multi award winning bars and wowing the world with their creations! They started to experiment with chocolate in 2015, launched FJAK officially in 2017 and by 2018 the bars were deemed winners by the Academy of Chocolate and the International Chocolate Awards.
FJÅK is pronounced FEYAK and roughly translated means “honest” or “lovable”, a traditional expression from the Hardanger dialect people use to refer to each other. I think it describes their chocolate, packaging and ingredients perfectly. Their bean to bar chocolate is organic and ethically traded, their packaging is straightforward and minimal and they source Nordic ingredients for their inclusion bars.
If you’re looking for something new and unique in your chocolate, look no further. Ingredients such as waffles, brown cheese, blackcurrant and smoked salt are but a few of the additions to bean to bar chocolate bars to choose from!
Kad Kokoa is a Thai Craft Chocolate Maker using locally sourced cacao beans from various regions in Thailand. Previously corporate lawyers, the husband and wife couple Nuttaya and Paniti chose to leave that life behind after spending time visiting farms, mountains and the countryside of Thailand.
Their mission is to promote Thai cacao beans and foster a new culture of Thai chocolate and bring it to the international scene. They currently work directly with four farms in four different regions of Thailand. Working directly and visiting farmers often Nuttaya and Paniti strive “to create a stronger local market and a trusting relationship”
Each region produces a different cacao bean flavour profile, so each of their single origin bars are distinctly different. Kad Kokoa also makes inclusion bars using single origin chocolate combined with locally sourced fruits, seeds and spices that honour the natural flavour of the cacao. Drawing inspiration from Thai foods and ingredients they have created interesting bars such as Milk Thai Tea and Salted Tamarind, a bar reminiscent of a popular sticky tamarind popsicle spiked with chili and salt. Welcome to the world of Thai chocolate!
Raaka Virgin Chocolate hails from Brooklyn New York. What’s virgin chocolate you might ask? Traditionally the first step in making chocolate is roasting the beans. Rakka skips this step, so their bars are made from un-roasted beans.
Why skip this step might be your next question. Because Raaka believes in the bold, fruity flavour of the bean and sees no need to alter that through roasting. The focus is on the flavours of the bean’s fermentation profile.
Suffice to say, these bars have bright flavour notes and when given the twist of flavour combinations from Raaka, the results are bars that are an incredible tasting adventure! Every recipe that is developed is inspired by the flavour of whatever bean is being worked with, and how the additions will enhance or bring forward those flavour notes already in the bean.
Raaka bars are vegan, gluten and soy free, certified organic and kosher. Just recently, Raaka added in bars that are also cane sugar free. Instead of the cane sugar, the bars are sweetened with maple or fruits. One is the Oat Milk bar made from Peruvian beans and maple sugar, and another is the Pure Cacao & Strawberry & Coconut 80% bar, made with beans from Tanzania and fruits. Another way to let the flavour of the bean shine!
How a summer vacation and a stop of coffee led to the creation of Svenska Kakao.
Sometimes things just fall into place, don’t they?
On a summer vacation in 2013 Fredrik and Ulrika decided to stop for coffee in a small village in Österlen. While there they bought coffee… AND a 19th century school house! The school house had a small praline shop, Österlenchoklad, associated with it and voila! they were in the world of chocolate. And still today they make these delicious pralines, under the same brand, but now with their bean to bar chocolate.
Soon after buying the shop, the couple moved from Stockholm to Österlan and within three months founded Svenska Kakao, joining the group of pioneers making bean to bar chocolate in Sweden. They say is was the taste experience of bean to bar chocolate that got them hooked on craft chocolate. We know the feeling. The more they delved into the craft chocolate world, and the more they learned about the whole process - from cocoa varieties, to farming and fermentation, and the steps of making chocolate - their vision of a chocolate factory took hold.
Making visits to the farms and meeting farmers is very important to Fredrik and Ulrika. They are constantly seeking out cacao varieties with naturally extraordinary flavour profiles that are being fermented and dried properly. The Svenska single origin bars are created with only the bean and cane sugar, so those beans need to be the best! Roasted at a low temperature, minimally processed and no unnecessary ingredients added, they want to offer that truly unique taste experience that comes with quality craft chocolate.
And in the last few years, Svenska is proud to say they are the first in the Nordics to manufacture their chocolates entirely from their own chocolate - “bean to bonbon”. Taste control, quality, and full transparency in the production process from the cocoa bean origin to the finished praline results in chocolate with incredible taste.
Step by step and together with the global bean to bar movement, they are working to change the chocolate industry. We’re happy to join them on their journey, as it ours as well!
There are so many reasons to love zotter Chocolate from Austria! Bean to bar, fair trade, all organic ingredients. Craftsmanship developed over 30 years.
Family owned, the company started as Joseph with his wife Ulrike in 1987 and now has a team of 200, including their daughter Julia and son Michael.
Creative, whether it be in products, flavour combinations, or packaging, zotter is unique. It’s obvious in their flavour combinations; their presentation; and the way they describe their chocolate inspirations, that the family and team have a lot of fun in their chocolate world.
Their most unique bar – the Handscooped Bar – is also their claim to fame. Handscooped bars are filled chocolates. New flavours are available every month and so many to choose from it makes it hard to create a selection so we have decided to change it up every month!
Plain bars range from Rice White (vegan) to 100% dark with lots in between.
