The awards for the International Chocolate Awards, America's competition were just announced, and we have 15 winners, including Gold for our Asochivite with Maple bar - that's more winners than any other chocolate maker in north America. Our winners now go on to the World Finals, where they'll be judged alongside the winners from every other regional competition. For the full list of awards visit our Award Winners page, and try all the winners for yourself in our online store!

Visit our chocolate factory! Learn about how we source our beans and see each step of our chocolate making process, including roasting, grinding, pressing and molding. Tours last approximately one hour and include the factory tour as well as a tasting of cacao beans and three different bars, as well as a complimentary Signature Line bar of your choice. The tour is appropriate for all ages. At the end of the tour you'll also have the opportunity to visit our...

We're excited and proud to announce that we won seventeen 2022 Academy of Chocolate Awards - more than any other maker in North America! Our winners include four golds: Special Reserve 100% Cacao Special Reserve, Putnam Rye Whiskey Special Reserve, Lawley's Rum Special Reserve, Las Palomas Coffee For the complete list of winners check out our Awards Page. All of these bars are available in our online store and are currently in stock, so you can try all of the...

You've probably seen the term Fair Trade a lot on product packaging. When you see that label you probably assume that people all along the supply chain, from farmers on up, are receiving a higher price for their product than they would otherwise. But, that's not always the case. For example, with cacao it's possible that farmers who pay money for a Fair Trade certification could get paid LESS than the already-too-low commodity price for cacao. Does this mean Fair...

It's true - single origin cocoa butter really IS awesome. We know this because we taste it. A lot. If you don't agree with us about cocoa butter's awesomeness you've probably never tasted the right kind. And the reason you've probably never tasted the right kind is because it's very, very, very hard to find. Why is it so hard to find? Well, because it's very, very, very hard to make. But we make it because adding single origin cocoa...

The Washington Post recently published an excellent article, “Cocoa’s Child Laborers,” detailing the issues with child labor and unsafe working conditions in the global cacao supply chain. The article explains how, for nearly twenty years, the large industrial chocolate companies have missed goals to eradicate child labor from cacao production. These goals were set collaboratively involving many major industrial chocolate companies, members of the U.S. congress and representatives from foreign governments. Based on the numbers provided in the article it...

We're a small business, and we actively search out and support other small businesses in our community. We'd like to share why the concept of small business is so important to us. First, we should define what a small business is. The US Small Business Association defines it as an independent business that has less than 500 employees. While that may seem like a lot, the average small business size is 22.2 employees per company. According to the SBA’s 2020...

We're proud to announce our Boyaca bar is our fifth consecutive Good Food Award Winner! The Good Food Awards are unique in that all submissions must meet strict criteria for social and environmental responsibility. There are only three regional winners in each category, making these awards even more special. Try our Boyaca bar for yourself today, and try our four previous winners with our Good Food Award Winners collection!

Happy Spring! We are outside prepping the gardens for our Spring plantings, and it feels so good to dig in the dirt and imagine all of the vegetables and herbs we’ll have soon have. A family favorite to grow is fresh mint- luckily for us it is such a hearty plant we are never in short supply for our teas, salads and treats! This inspired us for this week’s chocolate baking experiment, and the resulting double chocolate mint brownies were...

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 different categories: Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Coffee & Hot Cocoa. We're the only chocolate maker to win an award in each category, and the...