38 products
38 products
38 products
Canton Earl Grey Tea Bags
China, India, Italy. Expertly blended in the UK by Canton.
This is a cut above others because we choose premium teas to carry authentic cold-pressed Calabrian bergamot oil. The difference is clear, first when you smell the aromatic citrus notes, then when you taste the liquor that holds the bergamot flavour and lingers with tantalising softness on the tongue. Try it light and black, or brew it longer and stronger, adding a drop of milk.
Ingredients: Black tea, bergamot oil.
Taste & aroma
The smooth, bright liquor of this tea is rich with citrus of the bergamot that lingers with tantalising velvety softness on the tongue.
Infusion guidelines
For the ideal cup of Canton Earl Grey, steep 1 teabag of loose leaf in 250ml of 95°C water for four minutes if you’re taking it with milk. If you’re taking it black, use 3g of loose leaf and only steep it for two minutes.
*Contains 15 Tea Bags
Canton English Breakfast Tea Bags
Expertly blended in the UK by Canton.
The region of each tea offers distinct notes: Kenyan leaves have a golden hue, Assam adds maltiness, Rwandan tea makes it rich and smooth and Yunnan Chinese tea gives a dark cocoa flavour. It delivers full-bodied tea with a bright, satisfying flavour to delight traditionalists and ensure that once enjoyed, you won’t go back to ordinary English Breakfast.
Ingredients: Black tea (Camellia sinensis)
*Contains 15 Tea Bags
Canton Triple Mint Tea Bags
Egypt, Bulgaria, UK. Expertly blended in the UK by Canton.
This blend has a multi-dimensional taste that delivers depth of flavour and a refreshing, cooling mint sensation. Peppermint and spearmint from the fertile Nile valley and lemon balm – mint with a citrus hint – are selected for ideal flavour balance and then dried carefully to retain their essential oils. As this infusion is naturally caffeine-free, it’s perfect at any time of day, especially after a meal.
Ingredients: Spearmint, peppermint, lemon balm.
*Contains 15 Tea Bags
Chocolarder Asháninka 72% Dark Chocolate Bar
The indigenous Asháninka people maintain their independence by cultivating and harvesting Peruvian rainforest cacao, which they sell to support and protect their land and communities.
Partnering with rainforest preservation charity Cool Earth to source direct from the growers, we are excited to be able to show off this exquisitely fruity cacao whilst contributing to a sustainable future for the Asháninka.
Early notes of green and red fruit, with undertones of hazelnut. Middle tones of apple peel and raspberry slowly give way to a long ending of burnt sugar caramel.
Cocoa beans and unrefined raw sugar.
The Ashaninka are one of the largest indigenous groups that populate the Amazon rainforest. Settled in small communities on their ancestral lands in Peru, their tribal way of life remains intact, relying on traditional methods of hunting, fishing and farming to subsist.
Illegal loggers pose a very real threat to the land upon which the Ashaninka have thrived for centuries, and therefore to their survival as a people.
Rainforest preservation charity Cool Earth has been working with the Ashaninka to educate them in how to cultivate, ferment and dry fine flavour cacao using traditional means that minimally impact their environment. The beans attract a much higher price than commodity cacao, enabling them to fend off the threat to their land and provide a long-term and secure future for their families.
Chocolarder Blonde 40% Milk Chocolate Bar
This bar is what dreams are made of a mature take on a childhood favourite. It’s almost as if we took caramel shortbread and used our Chocolarder magic to turn it into smooth, moreish white chocolate. That is essentially what the caramelisation of white chocolate achieves; and it tastes delicious!
We extracted the natural fats from Ghanaian cocoa and combined them with the rich flavours of toasted milk to create a superb blonde chocolate bar.
Flavours of biscuit and caramel melting into sweet shortbread
Cocoa butter, unrefined raw sugar and milk powder. 70g
Chocolarder Cinnamon Toasted Nibbed Cacao 74% Dark Chocolate Bar
‘Nibs’ are simply pieces of cocoa bean with the shell and husk removed. The beans used for the nibs in this bar are a native variant from the Akesson owned Fazenda Sempre Firme plantation in Bahia, eastern Brazil.
The nibs are lightly caramelised to preserve their flavour and texture when folded into our Peruvian 70% chocolate, delivering intense bursts of complex cacao flavour through every bite.
Early notes of red fruit and hazelnut with a hum of toasted cacao nibs. Lingering caramel and earthy cocoa flavours finally give way to a final warming glow of cinnamon.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar and cinnamon.
Mata Atlantica is the name given to the extensive rainforest which once stretched along most of Brazil’s Atlantic coast. Sadly there is little left now, but what remains is sustained in part by the cacao plantations nestled in the undergrowth. Fazenda Sempre Firme is a small cocoa plantation, just over a square kilometre in size, right in the middle of the Mata Atlantica.
Owned by the renowned Akessons family, they grow the traditional and extraordinary “Parasinho” variety of cacao that earned the Bahia region notoriety for its quality and fine flavour crop.
To accentuate the beans natural woody and earth notes, the nibs are toasted with Sri Lankan Ceylon cinnamon infusing the nibs with its rich aroma, before the toasted nibs are sealed within a cinnamon sugar crust.
Chocolarder Cornish Honeycomb 50% Milk Chocolate Bar
Master beekeeper Matt Pitt cares for his colonies of Cornish black bees by using sustainable methods that are stress and chemical free for the good health of his fuzzy compatriots.
He supplies us with fresh tree honey from which to make our own honeycomb, which delivers deep, heavy honey flavours and a pleasing crunch alongside our creamy milk chocolate.
Bursting with deep honey and toffee sweetness with a background of toasted hazelnut.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar, milk powder, honey and bicarbonate of soda.
In the springtime the Cornish hedgerows hum with the sound of bees doing their good work, so we looked for a Cornish beekeeper who could supply us with some delicious local honey from which to make our honeycomb.
Meeting Matt Pitt was a revelation to us. Not only could he readily supply the goods, he also came with an abundance of bee expertise and knowledge that turned our foodie interest into bee-vangelical fervour.
Matt keeps Cornish Black Bees, and is working hard to support and encourage their colonies to repopulate Cornwall. This breed of honeybee is naturally resilient to our climate, but numbers have significantly declined, largely due to human interference.
It’s estimated that there are now half the number of bees in the UK that were here just 20 years ago. Threats include non-traditional beekeeping methods and hive transportation that stress the colonies, the importation of non-native bees along with pests and diseases, and the loss of most of our wildflower meadows.
Chocolarder Cornish Sea Salt 50%Milk Chocolate Bar
That perfect balance of salty and sweet, we’ve made 50% Gola Rainforest milk chocolate, and run locally harvested salt crystals throughout.
The cacao beans for this chocolate were grown under the canopy of Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest National Park. Various charities, including RSPB, have been working with local farmers to grow the cocoa in harmony with the park rather than drive deforestation.
In addition, we’ve sprinkled in some Cornish sea salt, which hand-harvested from the protected, open waters of the Atlantic Ocean, just a stone’s throw from our Falmouth chocolate factory. Inspired by the original methods of harvesting ocean salts, production of these sea salt crystals references century old techniques, delivering the unique mineral profile that creates such a distinctive flavour.
Rich fudge notes with pockets of zesty salt crystals and a melt in the mouth, creamy finish.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar, milk powder and sea salt. 70g
Chocolarder Femme Virunga 75% Dark Chocolate Bar
African chocolate has a dark history.
That is why projects in the Virunga National Park, the oldest in Africa, are so important. In 2016 the Femmes de Virunga project was launched, the first ever female-led cacao cooperative in the world, and in one of the most dangerous places to be a woman. The project educates and supports these women, enabling them to provide for and support their families.
Since the project started in 2016 more than a quarter of a million cacao trees have been planted and there are over 1500 women farmers in the cooperative.
Tasting Notes
Deep chocolate and light brightness of dried red fruits with a peaty whisky end note.
Cocoa beans and unrefined raw sugar. 70g
Chocolarder Guadalcanal 67% Dark Chocolate Bar
We want to showcase the incredible natural flavours found in cocoa beans, and on our mission we had to share these.
Great lengths were gone to, to grow and transport the cocoa beans used in this bar. From Guadalcanal in the Solomon Isles, where the only bridge to the mainland has been swept away by storms. Navigation by boat is not possible, so to take beans off the island requires the farmers to wade across the river, with 70 kg sacks of beans on their heads. If this isn’t enough, the river is homed to crocodiles!
This bar has an exciting combination of tropical fruity notes which as they melt turn into the flavours of malty biscuits, coffee and notes of walnut. This is really unlike any bars in our selection at the moment.
Tasting Notes
Mango and pineapple melt into malty biscuits, coffee and notes of walnut
Cocoa beans and unrefined raw sugar. 70g
Chocolarder Hazelnut Praline 65% Dark Chocolate Bar
The perfect union. Comforting flavours of toasted hazelnut praline and raisin-flavoured cacao have been crafted into a texture that melts on the tongue but still has the snap of tempered chocolate.
Famous organic Italian hazelnuts paired with Seram Island cocoa. The largest cocoa plantation on the island contributes to the community by supporting local schools, constructing medical facilities and renovating churches and mosques.
As with all our products, the chocolate is made in our Falmouth factory.
Tasting Notes
Melting hazelnuts, finishing with rich toffee and spice flavours from Indonesian cocoa
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar, hazelnuts (NUTS), Cornish sea salt
Chocolarder Jolomijix 75% Dark Chocolate Bar
On our hunt to showcase the incredible variety of natural flavours in cocoa beans, we bring you this limited edition Guatemalan bar.
The beans for this bar were produced by farmers who are part of the Q’eqchi’ Maya tribe, living in Sierra de Las Minas in Guatemala. Using agroforestry techniques, farmers help to preserve habitats for rare and endangered species. Only 10% of the cocoa beans are exported and used internationally from Guatemala. This exclusivity is reflected in the quality of the beans, making this chocolate very special and one we are privileged to be able to make.
This is a smooth creamy dark chocolate, with notes of toasted bread and brazil nut coming through as it melts in the mouth.
Tasting Notes
Brownie, fudge and molasses melt to reveal spices, toasted bread and brazil nut.
Cocoa beans and unrefined raw sugar. 70g
Chocolarder Kuala Kokoo 65% Dark Chocolate Bar
This is no ordinary milk chocolate! These beans from Kuapa Kokoo have been roasted to a mellow flavour of toffee and sweet honey. Balancing this rich and creamy flavour brought us up to the highest cocoa milk chocolate we have made, and we can’t get enough. We often find ourselves helping milk chocolate fans into the world of great dark chocolate, with this bar, we are doing the opposite! Welcome to what milk chocolate can be.
Tasting Notes
Flavours of brownie and cinder toffee with a vanilla finish.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar and whole milk powder. 70g
Chocolarder Maleku 70% Dark Chocolate Bar
A bar with an incredible story, made to showcase the irresistible flavour of these Costa Rican cocoa beans.
In the early 1980s, Costa Rica’s cacao was devastated by the fungus “Monilia,” which spread throughout the country’s huge cacao fields, killing tens of thousands of hectares of cacao crop.
While Costa Rica’s cacao industry has never quite recovered, there have been plenty of efforts made thanks to cacao producers like Nahua Cacao. They are dedicated to not just providing the greatest quality post-harvest services, but also to improving the lives of smallholder farmers via training, assistance, and community participation, as well as encouraging sustainable farming techniques, reforestation, and conservation.
Tasting Notes
Rich cocoa flavours with notes of coffee, fig and caramelised banana.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar. 70g
Chocolarder Millot Farm 80% Dark Chocolate Bar
Established in 1904, Millot Farm sprawls across 15 km² in the Sambirano Valley, northern Madagascar. It produces spices, essential oils and this incredible aromatic cacao.
The farm is a big draw to the region for its lush landscape and stunning scenery – for us the fruity punch of this Javan originating hybrid strain of cacao is definitely the main attraction.
Bursting with tart cherry and sweet raisin flavours leading to light sandalwood and smokey notes giving an incredibly complex finish.
Cocoa beans and unrefined raw sugar.
Although Madagascan cacao only accounts for 0.5% of worldwide production, the small but incredibly lush and fertile island is recognised for growing almost exclusively ‘fine flavour’ cacao (as opposed to commodity) and so is looked to by the high end chocolate industry and discerning independent craft makers (hiya!) for quality, characterful beans.
Malagasy cacao is not native – Lucien Millot started cacao cultivation on the farm with Trinitario trees from Java, and over a century later the beans they produce are some of the very best on the market. The plantation now employs over 800 people – the majority women – and supports the local school attended by many of the employees’ children.
Chocolarder Oko Caribe 60% Browned-Butter Milk Chocolate Bar
For more than 50 years Adriano de Jesus Rodriguez and Gualberto Acebey Torrejon have generously shared their expertise to build a community dedicated cacao farmers in the Duarte province, Dominican Republic.
The care taken to nurture the quality of their cacao shines through in the stunning mellow tones that work beautifully left to stand alone and when combined with other ingredients. A lovely bean from lovely people.
A very nutty aray of flavours from the cacao and browned butter base. A slow build to interesting flavours of vanilla ice cream and honey over light white fruit flavours.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar and browned milk powder.
Chocolarder Pure 100% Dark Chocolate Bar
The fruity Peruvian rainforest cacao cultivated by the indigenous Ashaninka people is the perfect bean for showcasing in its purest form.
Nothing else is added, leaving only natural flavours and sweetness that are coaxed and developed through the careful crafting of the chocolate maker. The holy grail for chocolate purists.
A slow build to intense roasted brazil nuts, with accents of grapefruit and plantain. This bar is un-sweetened but still delivers a beautifully balanced flavour.
Cocoa beans
In our humble opinion, a 100% bar isn’t worth tasting unless it’s made from bean to bar by a skilled chocolate maker. The reason for this is that most chocolate ‘makers’ are buying in commodity chocolate which they make palatable by adding sugar and flavourings. Without these additions the chocolate would be far too bitter to want to consume, with the possible exception of some hardcore sugar avoiders.
A 100% bar from the right hands, however, is a labour of passion and patience. The discernible flavours and sweetness have to be carefully coaxed out of the bean and preserved at every stage of processing, through fermentation, drying, roasting, grinding, conching, ageing and tempering, a process that spans months and continents! There is nothing to hide behind. At first, the intensity of unadulterated cacao can be a shock, but approached with an attitude to savour rather than scoff, it may even prove a game-changer in your perception and appreciation of chocolate as a food.
Chocolarder Roasted Chestnut 40% Chocolate Bar
A single origin white chocolate bar crafted from Peruvian cocoa butter, pressed from the bean by Chocolarder in Cornwall
Impressively crafted from Chocolarder’s very own virgin-pressed cocoa butter, this bar will have you reaching back for more with a dangerous frequency!
When you first unwrap this bar, you’ll notice that it isn’t the creamy colour that you might expect from a white chocolate bar. This chocolate has retained its natural, deliciously golden colour, having been spared the process of bleaching. It is also a reflection of the meticulous processes of production that have inspired its conception and creation.
This white chocolate bar is both a rare and remarkable achievement – few makers in the world press their own cocoa butter as few can boast of their own cocoa butter press. Of these, fewer still are based in the UK, with Chocolarder a true pioneer. Perhaps even more impressive is that this press started its life as a car jack, meticulously and ingeniously repurposed by Chocolarder frontman Mike, in order to bring you an extraordinary chocolate tasting experience. By pressing their own cocoa butter, Chocolarder are able to ensure that the subtle flavours of their beans are coaxed out and showcased without the need for the addition of vanilla. Furthermore, this cocoa butter does not undergo a process of deodorisation, extraordinarily unusual in itself. Industrial chocolate makers, for example, often deodorise cocoa butter so that they can eliminate its flavours and aromas, to ensure that it does not impart any taste upon the chocolate. So, by using cocoa butter that hasn’t been deodorised, Chocolarder is able to produce an authentic, chocolate tasting experience in its white chocolate bar.
This is a white chocolate bar crafted in Cornwall, but that started its life as Criollo cacao in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. Mike sources these beans from Asháninka farmer cooperatives in the rainforests of the Ene River valley, with the help of environmental charity Cool Earth, who are dedicated to protecting against deforestation. The Asháninka are an indigenous population who live mostly in the Peruvian Amazon, for whom biodiversity and its protection is a central tenet of existence. Harvesting and selling cacao provides them with a sustainable income stream. This is crucial to combat the challenges they face from illegal logging, mining and deforestation.
Chocolarder is the creation of former Pâtissier, Mike Longman, who began his bean-to-bar journey after committing to make as many of his own ingredients as possible. Starting out in his kitchen, Mike now operates out of a small factory in Cornwall, where he is dedicated to sourcing unique and exciting local inclusions ranging from wild gorseflower, to the honey of native Cornish black bees. Mike is dedicated to a production process that is truly transparent and sustainable, both economically and ecologically. Not only does he source his beans direct from the farmers, but he transports them back to his factory by sail boat, all in the name of zero carbon transport!
Tasting Notes
In the words of Chocolarder, this 40% white chocolate bar is “an embodiment of winter comfort.” And we agree. It’s the creamy texture and warming chestnut flavour, balancing of nutty tones and sweetness, and the finishing of a soft smokiness that makes it feel so comforting.
IngredientsCocoa butter, unrefined sugar, whole milk powder
Chocolarder Rosemary Sea Salt 50% Milk Chocolate Bar
So popular as a limited edition, it’s jumped over to our permanent range, time to find out what all the fuss is about; but is it savoury or sweet? Oh it might be used to being paired with potato and lamb, but rosemary is oh so brilliant paired with sweet things. Having tried it once in a caramel ice cream, we thought now was the perfect time to bring rosemary chocolate to the world in bar form.
A delicious chocolate bar that blends salty and sweet flavours with locally harvested rosemary from Cornwall. We’ve chosen 50% Öko Caribe cacao from the Dominican Republic as the foundation, but it’s the rosemary that steals the show. With local Cornish sea salt crystals from the Lizard.
A perfect gift, the balance of delicious chocolate that makes them double take, without having a negative impact on the planet.
Rich fudge notes with subtle pockets of zesty salt crystals and a melt-in-the-mouth, creamy finish, subtly but impactfully infused with fragrant rosemary.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar, milk powder, rosemary and sea salt. 70g
Chocolarder Toasted Oat Milk 60% Chocolate Bar
Just three ingredients, cocoa beans, unrefined sugar and toasted whole oats. This bar is both dairy and gluten free.
The cacao beans for this chocolate were grown under the canopy of Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest National Park. Various charities, including RSPB, have been working with local farmers to grow the cocoa in harmony with the park rather than drive deforestation.
We’ve added toasted whole oats to the cocoa beans and sugar to replicate the creaminess without using dairy.
Deep cocoa melting to sweet marzipan and brandy notes with a brownie finish
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar and toasted gluten free oats. 70g
The Gola Forest is one of only two national parks in Sierra Leone, referred to as the ‘green diamond of the nation’. A remnant of the Upper Guinean Tropical Rainforest, it is home to over 330 bird species, of which 14 now face global extinction.
The Gola Rainforest project is providing a livelihood and income for farmers around the national park while helping them to protect the rainforest from deforestation. Growing cocoa isn’t an easy task, and harvesting the pods can only be done by hand when grown under the canopy of the rainforest, hence the destruction of nearly all of Ghana’s rainforest when they opted for easy harvesting, leaving devastation.
The project has been supporting farmers to harvest, ferment and dry their cocoa beans to the best quality to yield higher prices from chocolate makers around the world.
The rainforest is home to many endangered species including forest elephants, pygmy hippos and chimpanzees.
Chocolarder Wild Gorse Flower 50% Milk Chocolate Bar
Picked by hand in late spring from the prickly hedgerows that line the rugged Cornish coastal path, these small yellow flowers are a right pain in the fingers to harvest!
However, once steeped in cocoa butter pressed from our own beans, the flowers impart their heady warm coconut scent to our milk chocolate for a unique flavour that makes it all worthwhile.
Warming toasted coconut with hints of fudge and roast nut, ending in light red fruit.
Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar, milk powder and gorse flowers.
Gorse bushes can be seen in abundance across the Cornish landscape from moorland to coastal paths, through towns and invading gardens. These large spiney bushes provides shelter and food for many insects and birds, such as Stonechats, Dartford Warblers, and Yellowhammers.The flowers on these prickly bushes are a vibrant yellow and bloom in the years early sunshine, these are the treasures we seek for our chocolate.
During their bloom, clouds of warm coconut scent drift on the breeze from the gorse bushes and are integral to our nostalgia for the long unmitigated summers of childhood that everyone seems to remember but no-one can quantify.
Traditionally, Gorse has had many roles aside its burst of coconut fragrance as we trek the coastal paths. The dry branches can be gathered for an effective fuel, used in bread ovens and stoves, and when bound together could form an efficient chimney brush. The flowers have also been widely used in making wine and cordial but most surprisingly being turned into colourings to decorate Easter eggs.
Dark Woods Coffee Arboretum Espresso
The lightest espresso, Arboretum is a celebration of nature and origin. It changes regularly to reflect the freshest and most interesting coffees that they can find and may take the form of a harmonious blend or a stunning single estate. Sweet and vibrant in milk, bright and juicy when drunk black, Arboretum is a coffee for the curious and the bold.
Arboretum is a multi-award winning coffee (two-stars in the Great Taste Awards 2017, and one star in 2018). Taking the best of current crops, this espresso is designed to highlight the fruitier side of coffee, left lighter roast to retain those citrus flavours.
Dark Woods Coffee Black Hill (3 Star Winner - Great Taste Awards 2024)
Black Hill is our newly award-winning, modern interpretation of deep, rich espresso flavours. Inspired by our popular Deer Hill recipe, it’s named after one of the highest points in our local moorland scenery. We blend speciality-grade arabica with a “Kaapi Royale” specialty robusta from the Harley Estate in India and fully develop the roast, to produce a uniquely rich and full-bodied coffee. Sweet and satisfying with milk, complex and smooth without, Black Hill delivers familiar flavours without compromise.
Dark Woods Coffee Common Grounds – Barrel Aged
We are delighted that Common Grounds has won a coveted 3-star Gold award in both the 2017 & 2018 Great Taste Awards. GTA judges commented that it “has great nose; feels like you can taste the barrels in the aroma. It delivers a big hit of blackcurrants and forest fruits. With milk, the fruits are even more pronounced. Funky, sweet, rich, and smooth. Delicious. 3 star.”
Last year saw the launch of Common Grounds, a collaboration with ourselves and Magic Rock Brewery, to make the the ultimate triple coffee porter. This collaboration has now gone even further.
Magic Rock use whiskey barrels to age some of their beers in. This mellows the flavours of the beer and adds complexity from the wood and the traces of whiskey. The same effect can be found when you store green beans in the barrels. We use washed Ethiopian coffee from Yirgacheffe, that is “aged” in a Bourbon barrel for a couple of week before roasting
The results are stunning. A faint aroma of the whiskey (especially when you grind it!) gives way to a sweet smooth vanilla flavour. Just delicious.
Please note that, as each batch has to be aged in the barrel for up to two weeks, there can sometimes be a short wait for coffee to be roasted. Also the intensity and flavour may vary as different barrels affect the coffee in their own unique way, just like a single cask whisky has its own unique signature.
Dark Woods Coffee Crow Tree
Dark yet bright, Crow Tree is a rarity amongst speciality coffees. Top quality, high altitude Arabicas are more commonly left light but we felt that this only tells half their story. By using the cleanest available green coffee we are able to roast darker to develop bold yet defined flavours that match those found in the very best single estate chocolate.
Crow Tree utilises coffees sourced from farms closely involved with the Café Femenino Project. This ground-breaking organisation supports women farmers and producers in what can be a challenging and male-dominated industry.
Crow Tree is a multi-award winning coffee (winning one star at the 2017 Great Taste Awards and two stars in 2018). For the team at Dark Woods, the quality of the coffee and a strong relationship with our producer friends goes hand in hand. Here, we’re looking to develop a coffee with a wide appeal – quality dark chocolate flavours, clean with a hint of fruit.
The current blend comes from Peru Asproagro Community (washed arabica) and Honduras Finca La Guadalupe (washed arabica)
Dark Woods Coffee Deer Hill
We were getting requests for a traditional Italian style espresso. This made us nervous as cheap Italian espresso blends can be bitter from over roasting and cheap robusta.
So we set about making a much higher quality version, an elegant modern interpretation in the Dark Woods style.
The blend starts with specialty arabicas from South America and India. Finally, we add in the very best quality robusta from the award-winning Harley Estate in India. It’s just mid roast resulting in a smooth rich bodied espresso that will make people reassess this style.
With a medium roast, Deer Hill delivers a soft, but full-bodies espresso with notes of fudge, toasted nuts and milk chocolate.
Deer Hill won a coveted 2 Stars at the 2018 Great Taste Awards.
Dark Woods Coffee Driftwood - Our "House" Colombian
Our house Colombian coffee since 2018, El Ata (FKA El Jordan) is unique in that it is a single estate that provides us with “fresh” green coffee all-year round thanks to their ability to produce a smaller fly crop in addition to the main annual harvest. We love the vibrant citrus acidity and caramel sweetness in El Ata and it’s a coffee that we return to time after time as the quintessential all-day, everyday brew.
We decided to rename this coffee Driftwood and move it into our Core Range because it's year round availability sets it apart from our other single estate products. It gave us a chance to commission another wonderful illustration from Swiss artist, Julia Marti, whose work is such a big part of our visual identity. El Ata is the river that runs through the region and this coffee is perfect for those relaxed, weightless moments where you lay back and go with the flow.
Dark Woods Coffee Good Morning Sunshine
Dark Woods Coffee Lamplight Decaf
Lamplight Decaf is gently decaffeinated using the Swiss Water method. This process not only removes the caffeine without resorting to harsh chemicals but also imparts a breaded sweetness that resembles rich fruit cake. Delicious brewed in every method Lamplight is coffee without caffeine or compromise.
Dark Woods Coffee Under Milk Wood
Not so much stuck between extremes as offering the best of both, Milk Wood was not only the first blend we roasted but the concept around which Dark Woods was built. A medium roast delivers familiar caramel sweetness but adventurous sourcing takes it beyond the perceived limits of this style. Validation of our approach arrived in 2016 when Milk Wood won a prestigious Golden Fork for best Northern Product in the Great Taste Awards.
Awarded a 3-star award and the “Golden Fork” in the 2016 Great Taste Awards for the best product in the North of England; it has also won a great taste award in 2017 & 2018.
This espresso blend is designed to melt into milk to give you a wonderfully caramel flavoured cappuccino, using high-grade single estate coffees to deliver familiar flavours rather than challenge.The roast level is carefully balanced to avoid the bitter flavours associated with some tradition style espresso blends, or acidity of some lighter blends, letting the sweetness shine through. Under milk Wood is very versatile and works well as a filter coffee too, in cafetieres and drip filters.
Flavour: Melts to smooth caramel in milk
The current blend is Brazil Fazenda Passeio (pulp natural arabica), India Kalledevarapura Estate (washed arabica), Ethiopia Aricha (washed arabica)
Dark Woods Ground Colombian Chocolate for Drinking
100% Colombian beans, ethically directly sourced and traded.
Made by an Colombian Chocolate manufacturer – supporting the economy at source rather than importing just the raw materials. The chocolate is then imported, flaked and packed by Choc Affair in York.
Ingredients:
Colombian Dark Chocolate * Suitable for Vegans* (min. cocoa solids 60%) (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin, natural vanilla flavouring).
Caramel Flavoured Colombian Milk Chocolate (min. cocoa solids 42%, min. milk solids 23%) (sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, cocoa mass, caramelised milk powder, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural caramel flavour, vanilla extract)