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821 Riverside Drive, Asheville, North Carolina 28804, United States
Did you know the flavor of chocolate varies based on the cacao you use? Depending on the cacao origin, genetics, and post-harvest processes of fermentation and drying, chocolate can be nutty, fruity, floral, or chocolatey!
Chocolate is the heart of our business, and we can’t make awesome chocolate without awesome cacao. We nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with fine quality cacao producers, and honor the fruits of their labor by paying well-above commodity prices. We want to connect you to the people and the places at the source of our chocolate.
Our current cacao origins include Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and Uganda. We are committed to our partnerships with these skilled producers, and to growing their businesses alongside our own.
At our Chocolate Factory in Asheville, NC, our skilled chocolate makers transform fine flavor cacao into delicious bean-to-bar chocolate in a complex, multi-day artisan process. First, we roast the cacao beans to express their unique flavor (yes, it smells amazing here!), then we winnow (separate the seed from husk), mill, refine, temper, and deposit the chocolate into bars or chips. This awesome chocolate becomes the base ingredient for our compendium of confections and desserts, available at our Asheville locations, from our website, or at a shop near you.