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We’re proud to share that our 2021 Sofi award winners are our El Carmen 77% bar, Classic Milk bar and our El Carmen Hot Cocoa! The sofi awards recognize the best specialty foods from around the globe, and were dubbed the “Oscars of the food world” by Bloomberg.  This year we won awards in three…

As a small craft chocolate maker it’s always gratifying to be recognized by the Academy of Chocolate, and this year we’re proud to have received 14 awards – more than any other craft chocolate maker in North America! About the Academy The Academy of Chocolate exists to, among other things, promote a greater awareness of…

The International Chocolate Awards for the Americas region were just announced, and we’re proud to have won 16 awards, including two Gold!  We’re very proud and honored to have won more ICA awards this year than any other chocolate maker in North America. Chocolate making has been a very long journey for us, starting more…

The Academy of Chocolate recently announced their 2020 Awards and we won 12 awards, including 3 gold!  They receive thousands of submissions from chocolate makers around the world and we’re very proud to receive so many honors. The Academy aims to improve the standard and knowledge of chocolate by promoting an understanding of the chocolate…

Last year we were fortunate to make history as the first chocolate maker to sweep the Dark Chocolate category at the Specialty Food Association’s annual Sofi Awards.  This year we not only repeated the feat, winning Gold, Silver and Bronze, but took home Best New Product as well! The Sofi awards, which Bloomberg dubbed the…

We’re excited to announce our Las Palomas Coffee bar is a 2020 Good Food Award winner!  We’re proud to have won a Good Food Award each year since we launched – three in a row!

We’re proud to announce three of our bars won Silver at the International Chocolate Awards World Finals!  Winners were announced at the awards ceremony in Antigua, Guatemala on November 18th and represent the best of the best from bars crafted by chocolate makers worldwide.  Our winners this year are:  Ucayali 70%, Asochivite 77% & our…

It’s awards season and the International Chocolate Awards just released the results of their 2019 Americas competition – we’re proud to have won seven awards including Gold for our 100% Cacao bar! Check out the full list of winners at our award winners page!      

The Good Food Foundation just announced Finalists for their 2020 Good Food Awards and two of our bars are on the list!  Our Special Reserve Las Palomas and Special Reserve Lawley’s Rum bars are both Finalists in the highly competitive Chocolate Category. For the past 10 years the Good Food Awards have honored companies producing…

The Academy Chocolate just announced their 2019 winners and we’re very proud to have won eight awards, including Gold for our Putnam Rey Whiskey bar! For a complete list of winners check out our awards page!        

We’re thrilled to announce we won six 2019 sofi™ Awards! The Specialty Food Association’s sofi™ Awards have been honoring the best and most innovative specialty food products for 47 years. These are the most respected awards in the food industry and we not only brought home six but our bars swept the dark chocolate category!…

We’re excited to announce the upcoming opening our first retail store!  Starting June 1st we’ll have our very own space at the Boston Public Market.  Not only will all our award-winning bars be available for sale but you can taste them, too!  We’ll also sell our award-winning hot cocoa mix and something new – freshly…

We’re incredibly excited about our very first collaboration with the brew masters at Trillium Brewing!  We used over 100 bottles of their Imperial Milk Stout to make our extremely limited edition Maker’s Choice Trillium Milk Stout bar.  To fully capture the flavors of the stout we steeped our Esmeraldas nibs in it for 48 hours,…