The almond-chocolate crunch is an unrivalled pleasure.
Almonds are kings of the nut world and here they are nestling in my smooth, nutty Sur del Lago dark chocolate. All I have done is to give them a gentle roast to awaken their sweet, almost buttery flavour. 100% Natural. Vegan. Soya Free. Gluten Free. Direct Trade. I make all my chocolate in small batches bean to bar from completely natural ingredients and some of the world’s great single estate cacaos. E
thically sourced - Direct Trade. Being a cocoa farmer himself, Willie puts the farmers at the heart of how he does business, buying all his cacao Direct Trade, paying a higher price premium than Fair Trade.
Willie Harcourt-Cooze, cacao farmer, pioneer and chocolate fanatic, has redefined how millions of people worldwide think about chocolate.
He started out buying a cocoa farm in Venezuela 20 years ago, and set up the UK’s first artisan ‘bean to bar’ chocolate factory in 2008.