We had ELEVEN winners at the International Chocolate Awards World Finals!! Our Asochivite with Maple won GOLD in its category and so did our Limited Release White Chocolate bar. The White Chocolate bar is sold out but you can try the Asochivite with Maple for yourself right now in our online shop. We source the maple sugar for this bar locally from Severence Maple in Northfield, MA. We tried lots of maple sugar but love the rich, deep maple flavors...

The 2024 International Chocolate Awards were recently announced and we had 18 winners, including two gold! The top award in the inclusion category went to our El Carmen with Coffee bar. This longtime fan-favorite includes crunchy bits of lightly roasted coffee beans sourced directly from El Recreo Coffee right here in Roxbury, MA. They grow the beans on their family farm in Jinotega, Nicaragua, and they're uniquely flavorful. We saw their entire operation when we visited - it's awesome! Also...

The Chocolate Alliance Awards were just announced and we won nine awards, including three Gold! The Chocolate Alliance is an organization with the mission to serve the artisan chocolate industry through professional consulting services, business education, product development seminars, professional networking and public events to ultimately create greater support, evolution, and success for business leaders in the chocolate industry. Their flagship event, The Northwest Chocolate Festival, is now in its 15th year, drawing thousands of consumers to taste new and...

Bloomberg put together a list of everything you need for the ultimate summer picnic, and our chocolate is on it! Put together your own fabulous picnic spread by checking out the article. Bloomberg has a paywall but you can read one article for free by scrolling to the bottom of the page and registering for an account - no credit card or email subscription required. The list has been thoughtfully curated to include more than just exceptionally tasty food and...

We're excited to offer a way to earn discounts in our online shop! We can't offer standard discounts because our margins are simply too small. So, we've added a loyalty program which allows you to earn a point for every dollar you spend on our website. Points can then be redeemed for discounts. We appreciate our many loyal repeat customers, and this is our way of saying thank you for supporting us. Here's how it works: EARNING POINTS To earn...

We're excited and proud to share that our Caramelized Onion bar just won a 2024 Good Food Award! A Good Food Award is one of the most coveted in the food world. Not only are there few awarded (only three in each category per region), but each entry needs to meet strict standards for sustainability and transparency. This is actually our seventh win in a row! Our previous winners are: 2018 - Esmeraldas 2019 - Putnam Rye Whiskey 2020 -...

Monica being interviewed for a documentary on craft chocolate This is the first time we attended the Craft Chocolate Experience in San Francisco and it was awesome - LOTS of craft chocolate lovers were in attendance and we sold out of several bars. The first to go was our Good Food Award finalist Caramelized Onion bar, followed closely by Sichuan Pepper and our new Zanzibar Pepper bars. We also sold out of our Chocolate Banana Split Bar, which premiered at...

Price increases are something we try very hard to avoid - in eight years we've only done two. But due to several factors we'll be raising the price of our chocolate bars on June 3rd. The increase will be between 11% and 15% depending on the bar. The biggest reason is the disruption of the cacao market due to the historically high price of beans. Commodity prices are typically around $2800 - $3200 per ton, but in the past six...

We just returned from a sourcing trip in Nicaragua! We visited our main farmer, Giff Laube, as well as some of the farmers which supply him with the baba for our El Carmen cacao. The good news is that, for the most part, the El Carmen/Matagalpa area of Nicaragua had a good harvest this year. This is in contrast to most other places in the world where the cacao harvest was the worst it's been in decades due to climate...

If, like most people, you don't pay attention to global commodity cacao prices you probably don't know how crazy they are right now. The price for a ton of cacao has historically been around $3200 - $3600 per ton, but here's the price as of March 18th: This is well above the previous all-time high of $5, 909 per ton. And it's shot up from normal levels in less than six months: But wait, you say - I thought the...