Somerville Chocolate started in the home kitchen of Eric Parkes as both a labor of love and a quest to better understand (and master) the art of chocolate making. We signed up to get monthly deliveries of his chocolate experiments and learned along with him by way of his detailed notes on topics ranging from cacao sourcing, fermentation, roasting, sugar content, conching and tempering. After several months perfecting a few recipes, he was happy to let us start selling them in our shops.
This Dominican cacao is smoked over apple wood prior to refinement. The resulting chocolate has a distinct yet not overpowering sweet smoky flavor that mingles with that of the chocolate.
