Yes, you heard that right!  We won FIVE awards from the most prestigous chocolate judging organization in the world.  Each year, the top chocolate professionals, michelin chefs, food critics, all get together to judge who makes the finest chocolate and chocolate confections.  Entries come in from around the world from the very best chocolate makers and chocolatiers.  What follows is a huge “taste-off”. This year, there were over 440 entries from the very best in the industry and our entries did very very well.  In fact, each bar we entered won an award.  This is particularly amazing since just last year, we felt very lucky that our Madagascar won a bronze.  As always, we work each and every day to step up the quality of what we do. Clearly, that is beginning to pay off.

Our awards are as follows:

• GOLD – Madagascar
• SILVER – Ocumare
• SILVER – Montanya
• BRONZE – Jembrana
• BRONZE – Ocumare Milk

We are completely overwhelmed and humbled by this. There are some very fine chocolate makers in the United States and yet, no other American chocolate maker has received such a resounding round of approval from the Academy of Chocolate.  Clearly, somebody likes what we are doing.

Really, a huge amount of credit goes to all the Amano Artisan Chocolate fans that we have. Seriously. What we do is a huge amount of work and at the end of each and every day, we go home exhausted. But what makes it all worth it is the faith that others have had in our vision and in us to be able to follow that vision. So, we dedicate our awards to you, our humble chocolate fans and to the love of chocolate.