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 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 […]
We’re delighted that South-West Food Magazine has named our Champagne High Tea Easter Egg in its Top Five Gourmet Easter Eggs selection.. Food Magazine said…. This elegant egg from Wiltshire’s Lick the Spoon is definitely one for the grown-ups. Not only does it come with pink Champagne truffles, it’s sculpted from white choc with a difference. Made […]
Liqueur Cherry Chocolates Our new Liqueur Cherry 12 Chocolate Box is perfect for Mother’s Day. Made with Morello cherries soaked in kirsch in a luscious soft fondant and 75% cocoa dark chocolate shell Not only that but they’re presented in a Plastic Free box as are all of our chocolates.
We had some good news this week in a Madagascar update from our friend Charlotte Baker, Operations Director at Small Steps for Africa. Diavolana is now in her last year of secondary school, and will be taking her baccalaureate leaving exams this autumn, having come top of her class again last academic year. Her […]
Well I finally completed my book – How to be Imperfectly Sustainable! I started writing it over two years ago when the IPCC 1.5 degree Climate change report hit me between the eyes. It seemed at the time that it had slipped under the radar and I felt an overwhelming need to act, to do […]
Our new Mixed Vegan Chocolates collection is here! Over the last two years we’ve been expanding our range of original Vegan chocolates to the point that we’ve now put them together in a new 12 chocolate mixed Vegan Chocolates collection. You don’t have to be a vegan to enjoy these delicious chocolates of course! It’s […]
Our Taste of the West Gold Award winning Liqueur Cherry Chocolates now have a new recipe and have evolved into an unktuous larger dark chocolate form, packaged in a beautiful, locally made, plastic free 12 chocolate box. We use specially selected tender morello cherries soaked in Kirsch, envelop them in a soft fondant and surround […]
With the latest announcement of lockdown for one month our chocolate factory will stay open, making and sending online orders. All of our chocolates now have a shelf life past Christmas with the exception of our Mixed and Alcohol free fresh chocolate collections. The couriers are indicating that they will become capacity overloaded and may […]