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Chocolate Tour & Tasting Events
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…
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Winter’s Eve Release
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,…
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75% Isabela, Philippines bar release
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…
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Matcha White Chocolate Bar Release
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…
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Chuncho, Peru Bar Release
We have a new origin! Chuncho, meaning “from the jungle” is an ancient and genetically isolated cacao variety grown in the Urubamba Valley of Peru. The Incas once used this valley as a major trade route when travelling from the Andes Mountains to the jungle. The cacao beans grown here come from very old trees,…
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Forest & Sea Release
The Forest and Sea is back, dropping at the shop and online this weekend! We first created this chocolate as wedding favours for Laura and Stefan’s wedding, the theme of which was Forest and Sea, an homage to their roots – Laura having grown up on the coast, and Stefan hailing from deep in the…