Seed Chocolate Peru ‘Land & Sea’ 75% 89.5/100

This bar is made using cocoa beans from the Piura region of north west Peru, sourced directly in collaboration with CacaoTales. Once harvested they’re shipped to Stoke on Trent where James Walter turns them into one of Seed’s chocolate bars.

Dormouse Chocolates Indonesia Guara Dark Milk & Smoked Sea Salt 55% 91.5/100

This bar is made with criollo and trinitario beans from Guara on the Indonesian island of Sumba, part of East Nusa Tenggara before being blended with milk and smoked sea salt. Once harvested they’re shipped to the Great Northern Warehouse in Manchester where Isobel and Karen turn them into one of their single origin chocolate bars.

Dormouse Chocolate Peru Gran Nativo Blanco 80% 90/100

This bar is made using cocoa beans from the Piura region of north west Peru, sourced directly in collaboration with CacaoTales. Once harvested they’re shipped to the Old Grenada Studios in Manchester where Isobel and Karen turn them into one of their single origin chocolate bars.

Solkiki Peru Gran Palo Blanco 72% 90/100

This bar is made using cocoa beans from a small community called Cesar Vallejo de Palo Blanco in Chulucanas, the Piura region of north west Peru, sourced directly in collaboration with CacaoTales. Once harvested and processed they are shipped to Iris and Bob in Dorset, where foregoing their degrees in Clinical Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction, they instead turn their passion and skills to turning these beans into one of their vegan chocolate bars. Using cobbled together equipment at their dedicated chocolate workshop, they stonegrind their chocolate using intensive labour in place of high tech gadgetry to produce their craft chocolate.

Solkiki Peru Gran Nativo 63% Coconut Dark Milk 91.5/100

This bar is made using cocoa beans from the Piura region of north west Peru, sourced directly in collaboration with CacaoTales. Once harvested and processed they are shipped to Iris and Bob in Dorset, where foregoing their degrees in Clinical Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction, they instead turn their passion and skills to turning these beans into one of their vegan chocolate bars. Using cobbled together equipment at their dedicated chocolate workshop, they stonegrind their chocolate using intensive labour in place of high tech gadgetry to produce their craft chocolate.

Chocolate Tree Peru Chililique 70% 91.5/100

This bar is made with beans sourced direct from Chililique in the north west of Peru, in collaboration with CacaoTales. You can read about the farm and the visit here. Once harvested these beans are shipped to Haddington just east of Edinburgh to Chocolate Tree’s factory where husband and wife team Alastair & Friederike Gower turn these beans into one of Chocolate Tree’s chocolate bars.