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A month after taking four gold medals, two silvers and a bronze in the Outstanding Food Producer Awards, Silverdale-based Foundry Chocolate was named bean-to-bar champion for its newly-released 70 percent dark chocolate made from cacao beans from the Ea Kar farming collective in Dak Lak province, Vietnam.
The announcement from the Outstanding Food Producer Awards judges on April 18 was the latest in a series of accolades for the small company founded by the husband and wife team of David and Janelle Herrick in Mahurangi West in 2018, before moving to new premises in Silverdale late last year.
In its first year of entry in the NZ Chocolate Awards, in 2020, Foundry Chocolate took home seven gold medals and was named NZ Chocolate Awards Supreme Champion. It won five gold medals in the 2022 awards, and last year won three gold medals at the Global Academy of Chocolate Awards in London.
“We are so proud of this result,” David said. “It recognizes the continual work we are doing with our craft and the amazing flavour notes possible from just two ingredients. To be recognized among so many other skilled New Zealand food producers, is very special.”
The winning chocolate bar, which Foundry Chocolate says has “tasting notes of silky crème brulée, buttery toffee and delicate woody spices”, is available at www.foundrychocolate.co.nz
