Our Chocolate Makers
We distribute bars and creations of fine chocolate makers around the world.
At Chocolate Squirrel, our aim to keep the chocolate makers in control of all aspects of their chocolate from bean to customer. We have formed close relationships with all our makers and share common goals: a deep passion for fine chocolate combined with ethical practices.
Sisters A. Chocolate
Olena and Oleksandra
Ukraine
Sisters Olena and Oleksandra run a small family factory in Lutsk, Ukraine. Overseeing the entire bean-to-bar process, they have founded their company around a philosophy of respect for nature, farmers, and manual labor. Bars are focused around high-quality ingredients, including ethically-sourced cocoa, and are vegan, made with oat milk.
Foundry Chocolate
David and Janelle Herrick
New Zealand
Foundry Chocolate celebrates and accentuates the remarkable personalities of the world’s finest cacao by crafting and aging micro-batches of award winning bean-to-bar craft chocolate from scratch--using only two ingredients: Cacao Beans and Organic Sugar--all from their little foundry just north of Auckland, New Zealand.
Aruntam Sensory Chocolate
Pia Rivera
Italy
Pia Rivera founded Aruntam Chocolate in 2019. She is the heart of this company. She follows each step through the supply chain, from sourcing the raw materials and cacao beans through the entire processing. She creates all recipes and products in the organic certified laboratory in San Giuliano Milanese. Aruntam takes great care to preserve the natural flavors of their ingredients. They select only best cacao beans creating chocolate that is minimally processed to capture its true essence. This bean to bar company has won numerous international awards.
MIKE&BECKY
Julia Mikerova and Björn Becker
Belgium
MIKE&BECKY like to keep things simple: organic cacao beans, organic beet sugar and a tad of organic cacao butter. All made in their 100% green energy and transparent workshop. They chose cacao beans from 7 plantations, and using these premium beans they developed 3 collections of chocolate bars: Classics, Inclusions and Specials.
Utopick
Paco Llopis and Juana Rojas
Spain
It is not possible to understand Utopick without knowing Paco Llopis and Juana Rojas. Paco is the master chocolatier while his Colombian born wife Juana brings her designer background to all that accents of his creations. “Juana’s creative mind brings that magical touch elevating each chocolate to the pinnacle of excellence.”
Black Jaguar Chocolate
Emilie Lacerte and Scott Patterson
Canada
Born from a chance encounter with cacao trees in the Bolivian Amazon, Scott and Emilie have been crafting small-batch bean-to-bar chocolate on Vancouver Island, Canada since 2021. They source rare and heirloom cacao directly from small-scale farmers across Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Mexico. Their collection spans from certified heirloom cacao darks, to inventive inclusions like Scorpion Chili, Japanese Genmaicha, and Maitake Toffee Nibs, through to wild foraged inclusions from Vancouver Island.
Karuna Chocolate
Armin Untersteiner and Katya Waldboth
Italy
Armin Untersteiner and his wife Katya Waldboth live in South Tyrol a German-speaking region in Northern Italy. When they founded Karuna Chocolate in 2018 they were the first in the region to produce organic bean-to-bar chocolate.
Guido Castagna
Guido Castagna
Italy
Guido Castagna and his team’s passion, craftsmanship and drive for the finest ingredients have earned them multiple international awards. Located in the Piedmont region of Italy on the outskirts of Turin, the finest hazelnuts in the world grow near his shop: PGI Piedmont hazelnuts.
Fine Chocolate Makers
We proudly provide retailers with ethically produced, bean to bar, fine chocolate from makers around the world.
Each bar has been carefully selected based on the above criteria along with flavor and quality. As versed professional chocolate tasters, we can guide retailers with bar selection best suited for their clientele.
In addition, each chocolate maker, we represent possesses a warmth and kindness that was the inspiration for this project. It is these commonalities that unite us and were the catalyst in creating the Chocolate Squirrel family.
We look forward to meeting you and introducing you to our family!
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Importing Chocolate
Interested in joining our family of makers and retailers?