Ocelot Chocolate Lemon Olive Oil 37% White Chocolate

Ocelot Chocolate Lemon Olive Oil 37% White Chocolate.

Delightful organic white chocolate infused with Puglian lemon olive-oil. This creamy and aromatic bar feels like diving into a lemon custard on a sunny afternoon in Italy! The olive oil is produced in a family-run mill, where they grind fresh organic lemons along with the olives during harvest, resulting in a fragrant and grassy green liquid that elevates Ocelot's smooth white chocolate to new heights of deliciousness.

The white chocolate is crafted from beans grown in the beautiful organic cacao gardens of the Yuna River Valley in the Dominican Republic. The milk comes from happy Swiss brown cows who roam freely on mountain pastures. Sweetened with raw organic cane sugar, this chocolate is not only delicious, but also environmentally friendly with plastic-free packaging made in the UK. The outer packaging is printed on sustainable card, while the inner film is certified home and industrial compostable.

℮70g

Ingredients: organic cocoa butter, organic raw unrefined cane sugar, organic whole milk powder, Italian lemon olive oil (olive oil (70%), lemon (30%))

From the maker: Our chocolate supplier works tirelessly to ensure that the cocoa farmers are given the fair trade and resources to enable them to focus on producing healthy, high quality cocoa and that they are able to not only look after their own families, but also protect the environment and communities around them.

In order to produce the beans needed to make chocolate, these farmers nurture the trees, hand pick the cocoa pods, and separate the beans for fermenting. After a carefully controlled fermentation process, the cocoa beans are sun dried to retain their natural qualities. The beans are then hand-peeled, before further processing into nibs, paste, butter and powder. We use a combination of couverture and also cocoa nibs which we then grind in our factory - we buy both of these products from the organic 'bean-to-bar' producer Original Beans. We aim to produce chocolate directly from the bean ourselves, and will be doing much more of that in 2020.

The chocolate with a cocoa percentage of 70%, is made from beans which are grown in Virunga National park - Africa's oldest nature reserve, and the home of the last Mountain Gorillas. There, the farmers are actively working to protect the gorillas and this precious habitat, and the beans that are produced reflect this wondrously diverse region, creating a chocolate with the rich and tart flavours of dark fruits, earthy forest floor and smoky tobacco.