Speciality drinking chocolate

Chocolate with ancient origin.

Single-origin couverture, for the slow art of drinking chocolate.

Real cacao, hand-packed in Kendal. Five thousand years of ritual, in something you can drink on a Tuesday morning.

iced hot chocolate poured into a glass of milkEst. 2021
Kendal · Cumbria
Featured originSambirano Valley, Madagascar

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“Chocolate, when made properly, is not a sweet — it’s a ceremony. We’ve spent five years trying to remember how.”

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