Consumers are rightfully becoming worried why their chocolate doesn't taste the same as it used to be. All over the world  more and more people are buying micro-manufactured bars made from scratch by small artisans because these are the only bars made with directy sourced cocoa beans and who are actually making chocolate the old-fashioned way — spilling the beans out of big burlap sacks, roasting, grinding, conching, blending, melting/tempering, molding, cooling, (and not necessarily in this order).

So next time you walk through the confectionery aisle at your supermarket we invite you to take a critical look at the wrapper of you favourite brand and ask yourself why is it called Fruit & Nut, Dairy Milk, Gold, Classic, or Excellence and why are they no longer calling it chocolate?

Most of the brands are no longer considered to be real chocolate because of the excessive use of non cocoa related ingredients. To comply with the European legislation (directive 2000/36/EC)    many popular brands were forced to remove the name chocolate from their wrappers as it is considered to be confectionery and not chocolate.

The Vanderwee range of micro manufactured bars do bring back the sacred mysteries of the cocoa bean, carefully teasing out the nuances of flavour in combination with all the health benefits good chocolates is renowned for.