CHOCOLATE TREE Dunbar, Scotland

If you like chocolate, you will love these bars.

Founders of Chocolate Tree, Alastair and Friederike Gower, started their chocolate adventure in 2005 by touring music festivals and selling their chocolates from a hand built solar powered geodesic dome tent. However, working with organic couvertures wasn’t enough for them. Alastair and Friederike – being the adventurous types – decided to start making their own chocolate from bean to bar in 2012. This was a time when the craft chocolate movement was just getting started in the UK.

Chocolate Tree has chosen to work with some outstanding premium cacao origins, and are always pioneering new approaches, such as its Whisky Nibs bar – made using heirloom cacao nibs infused with an Islay Single Malt. Chocolate Tree take a very precise, obsessive, and patient approach to chocolate making, all to produce the desired texture and flavour.

Both Alastair and Friederike travel frequently to cacao origins, in search of new cacaos but also to strengthen their relationship with the growers and co-operatives. This is something very important to both Alastair and Friederike – meeting the farmers, understanding the biodiversity of where the cacao grows. Chocolate Tree was the first maker to visit Chililique in Piura, Peru

Chocolate Tree

Knowes Farm, Dunbar
East Lothian, EH42 1XJ
Scotland
www.chocotree.co.uk