Striking gold with this passionately crafted bean-to-bar chocolate maker. Sheffield’s finest.

We have a new bean-to-bar, chocolate maker to add to our curated edit, Sheffield brand, Bullion.

Bullion, founded by Max Scotford, is just one of a small handful of bean-to-bar chocolate makers crafting and exploring their way through the exciting world of small batch chocolate. Like all of our artisan makers, Max and his team source cacao from trusted partners where accountability for the product they are buying, which pushes for fair trade, transparency and quality, is as important as the final product.

“I feel most people are barely scraping the surface when it comes to chocolate. The chocolate we’ve come to expect is so far from what it could be. For years the true flavours of cacao have been masked in order to create a product, which is a consistent sweet fix for the masses.

When in truth, chocolate is so much more complexed than that. Different bean varieties, harvests, origins and post harvest production processes, all have a huge bearing on the finished taste. So no two bars are quite alike, which really opens up a side of chocolate that many people just don’t know about.

Witnessing someone taste true craft chocolate for the first time is quite special for me. Something they thought they knew, but they actually really didn’t. It only took a bite to realise that.” Max Scotford

Having tried Bullion chocolate before, Sukey has been eager to bring the brand to our virtual shelves at cecilycane.com. The luxe packaging, attention to detail and true flavours of cacao brought into every single bar, it’s well worth trying. Trust us.