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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,…

We’re very proud to announce our Special Reserve with Putnam Rye Whiskey bar is a 2019 Good Food Award Winner!  Each year the Good Food Awards recognizes the best craft foods which are also ethically and sustainably sourced and we’re proud to be among the winners.  Find out more about the Good Food Foundation on…

If you missed “Deciduous” (it sold out fast!) here’s your chance to taste our cacao in another very special beer from the inspired brewmasters at Trillium Brewing.  PM Dawn is a seasonal Imperial Stout using cold brewed coffee from our friends at Barrington Coffee Roasters, and this year it includes our roasted El Carmen cacao…

Each year the International Chocolate Awards holds competitions for each region of the world, and the winners in those regions are able to submit their bars against the best of the best in the World Finals.  We’re happy to announce that at the awards ceremony in Florence, Italy this past Saturday we had two winners…

We’re very proud to announce our Esmeraldas bar won Gold for Best Dark Chocolate at last week’s Northwest Chocolate Festival!  This incredible bean from the Salazar family farm in the Esmeraldas region of Ecuador is some of the most flavorful cacao we’ve ever come across.  Try the gold winner today! Many thanks to Dan O’Doherty…