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Hotel Chocolat is a British chocolatier that sources cocoa beans directly from farms in the Caribbean and uses them to produce its entire range of chocolate bars and confections through a bean-to-bar process.
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Where does Hotel Chocolat source its cocoa?
Hotel Chocolat sources cocoa from its Rabot Estate in Saint Lucia and from growers in Ghana. The company says the Saint Lucia farm alone cannot supply the full demand for its chocolate range.
What is the Rabot Estate connected to Hotel Chocolat?
Rabot Estate is Hotel Chocolat's roughly 140-acre cocoa farm in Soufrière, Saint Lucia. The company bought the estate in 2006 and uses it as a base for farming and cacao education.
What does bean-to-bar mean at Hotel Chocolat?
Bean-to-bar means the chocolatier manages the journey from cocoa bean selection through roasting, grinding, refining, and molding. Hotel Chocolat uses this approach to link its finished bars to the cacao and farmers behind them.
Does Hotel Chocolat actually farm cacao or only buy finished beans?
It farms cacao at Rabot Estate and also runs an Island Growers programme in Saint Lucia. That programme provides seedlings, supports local growers, and gives the company a direct relationship with cacao production.
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