Artisanal chocolate making has grown in recent years out of a desire to return to ancient chocolate making techniques, promoting the original taste of chocolate.DV Artisan Chocolate is the only ‘Bean to Bar’ chocolate maker in South Africa.
Crafted by the De Villiers family in the beautiful seaside town of Hermanus, DV Artisan Chocolate is the only ‘Bean to Bar’ chocolate maker in South Africa.
Practicing the ancient art of chocolate making, we combine age-old stone grinding techniques with the precision of modern technology, using machinery and equipment custom designed and built by us.
In pursuit of only the finest cacao beans, we relentlessly searched all corners of the globe. More than 30 different origin beans were painstakingly tested over an 18 month period before we ultimately arrived at our choice of 5 origins, selected for their rich diversity of chocolate flavours: Trinidad, Venezuela - Rio Caribe, Venezuela - Caracas, Sao Tome and Madagascar.
Our chocolate making is a slow and lengthy process, taking up to 6 days, a procedure which cannot be rushed at any stage. Paying careful attention to the unique ‘personalities’ of each of our chosen varieties and origins, our beans are roasted, refined and conched on a micro batch scale in our factory, under our vigilant watch. Cacao is extremely rich in taste and aroma, containing in excess of 600 identified flavour components. Our quest is to reveal these inherent flavours within the cacao bean, without the use of any added flavourings or emulsifiers.
The result is a sophisticated and flavourful, yet remarkably pure chocolate, not to be found anywhere else in the world.
