Tomorrow we’ll be at out first event in two years! Postponed from 2020 we’re really excited to be at the Vegan Chocolate Festival in our home town of Chippenham. Set in the beautiful Neeld and Town Hall the festival is in two distinct parts. We’ll be downstairs in the Neeld for the Vegan Chocolate Festival. […]
We’re delighted to be finalists at the Taste of the West Awards 2021 in both the Chocolate and the Vegan Category! Following our record Eleven Taste of the West Gold Awards and a Silver award earlier this year, we now have three products selected as finalists for the Taste of the West Champions 2021, patron […]
We’re over the moon to have won a record Eleven Gold Awards and a Silver award at the Taste of the West Awards 2021 – patron H.R.H Prince Charles. In what’s been a challenging year we decided to ‘go big’ this year and enter twelve products including all of our new Easter Egg range. In […]
The sun is shining in the UK at present and temperatures are soaring! We keep all of our chocolates in a chilled room prior to dispatch and use a next day courier delivery that collects later in the day. Please order for delivery to an address where somebody will be present to take the delivery […]
We’ve made some behind the scenes website improvements that won’t be immediately obvious, but we thought we should tell you anyway…! Payment processing Ever since we started in 2006 we’ve used SagePay (now named Opayo) in conjunction with a merchant bank, in the last few years the merchant bank being AIB. This meant that you […]
Father’s Day 2019 is Sunday 20th June and we have some fabulous Father’s Day chocolate gifts for you, all available with a Free Gift Tag message and optional gift wrapping… If you’d prefer a milk chocolate caramel why not try our Taste of the West Supreme Champion 2016 – The Bish – a soft salted […]
We’ve signed up to the UK Government’s Race to Zero campaign. The most ambitious goal the Government site will allow sign up for is to commit to 50% greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. However on calculating our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions using market based calculations we […]
We’re now directly sourcing our liqueur cherries from a small artisan distillery in the Perigord region of France famous for its liqueur fruits. The distillerie was founded in 1860 and won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair. It’s part of our ongoing strategy to create direct connections with our ingredients suppliers, ensuring […]
We’ve now purchased and commissioned a new Selmi Chocolate tempering machine dedicated to Vegan Chocolate Tempering. As our Vegan chocolates range has grown we decided that the wonderful Madagascan Vegan Cashew milc chocolate needed it’s own dedicated tempering machine. This new machine allows us to become more efficient at making Vegan chocolates and helps us […]
If you’re looking for a way to reuse your Easter Egg box other than card recycling you could consider creating a sound system like this with it… It will require some technical ability to do this and some patience, but it isn’t expensive. It could be a good introduction into the low cost world of […]