The cocoa for this chocolate is grown beneath the canopy of Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest National Park, where charities including the RSPB work with local farmers to grow cocoa in harmony with the forest, helping prevent deforestation.
The darkest chocolate in their range, its deep colour belies a surprisingly sweet profile for a 78%. Tasting notes: Bran flake, treacle and plummy notes with a brownie finish.
One of only two national parks in Sierra Leone, the Gola Rainforest is home to over 330 bird species, 14 of them globally threatened. The Gola Rainforest Project supports local cocoa farmers while protecting the rainforest for the future.
Price x 70G Bar
Chocolarder is one of a handful of bean-to-bar chocolate makers in the UK, and the only one based in Cornwall. Everything that comes out of their factory is made with only the best ingredients, sourced locally where possible, in the seaside town of Falmouth.
Founded in 2012, Chocolarder started as the passion project of Mike Longman, a former pastry chef. Chocolarder is committed to ethical and sustainable practices:
- Plastic-free packaging on all products
- No palm oil
- No emulsifiers
- Supporting reforestation in various projects around the globe
- Slavery-free ingredients sourced direct from farmers
- An obsessive commitment to keeping waste to a minimum
- And committing to zero-carbon alternatives wherever possible
