Ocelot – Virunga, DR Congo, Dark 70% with Salt

About the bar

This bar has been sprinkled with hand-harvested Scottish sea salt, which cuts through the fruity, smoky flavours of the beans perfectly.

About the maker

Ocelot was founded by Matt and Ish, who met behind a fridge door at a party (while on the hunt for a snack) on a snowy Christmas night in Scotland. Inspired by a mutual passion for cooking and eating delicious things, the couple established Ocelot just two weeks after they got married in 2013. With their wedding gift money, Matt and Ish invested in a small tempering machine and a trademark, and started producing chocolate in their apartment which they later sold at farmers markets. Despite quickly gaining a mass of followers and moving into a factory with a production team, an ambitious expansion project and the financial turmoil of 2022 took them under. Thankfully, they were saved by their long-time supplier, Original Beans, and now have a new factory and production team based in Dundee, Scotland.

About the beans

This bar is made with beans from the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the last remaining home of the mountain gorillas . Planting cocoa on the edge of the park provides locals with a sustainable source of income that does not negatively impact the gorilla’s habitat. The result is a win for local humans and gorillas, and for chocolate lovers worldwide!

Allergens*

May contain peanuts, may contain milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Organic cocoa mass, organic raw unrefined cane sugar, organic cocoa butter, sea salt (1%)

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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