It has certainly felt like an eternal summer here on the west coast, but, as if to foretell the sudden change in weather, the last of our last Endless Summer bars sold out at the shop on the weekend. Yet, with every passing comes the birth of something new, in this case, an Autumn Dream:…
The start of September was a very exciting time for us as we heard the news that we won 22 awards (19 bars, plus 3 specials) at the International Chocolate Awards Americas in New York, the most awards received by any of the 140+ chocolate companies from North, South, and Central America who entered the…
We are happy to announce that we have started doing Chocolate Tours & Tasting Events at our Granville Island workshop. They are a fun event that literally walks you through the process of making chocolate followed by the tasting of some of our award winning bean-to-bar chocolate. Some highlights from the events: See and smell…
The nights are getting longer, and on the wings of a cold wind, an old friend has returned once more. The Winter’s Eve is back, spreading aromas of warm spices all throughout our workshop. This seasonal release is made with single estate cacao beans from Costa Esmeraldas in northern Ecuador, stone ground with Ceylon cinnamon,…
You might remember from the summer a photo of Vince in sweat soaked T-shirts, trekking through the northern Philippines visiting with cacao farmers and researchers (and scaring the daylights out of us with pics of spiders and cane toads). Well, it’s been several months in the making, but the fruits of that journey are now…
New limited release dropping today! This white chocolate is made with Peruvian cacao butter and a ceremonial grade Japanese matcha from Yame, Fukuoka, curated by Jude from Cultivate Tea. It is a first harvest matcha, the leaves of which are hand picked and grown at high altitudes, where the air is moist and foggy and…