Hogarth Chocolate Makers is a chocolate factory at 10 Kotua Pl in Nayland, Nelson, with a Google rating of 4.8. Its website describes award-winning craft chocolate made in a small Nelson factory.
According to the website, the chocolate is made bean to bar, in small batches, with cacao that it describes as ethically sourced and slave free, bought directly from producers where possible. It says the team sorts, roasts, crushes, winnows, grinds, conches, ages, tempers, moulds and wraps everything by hand, grinding the ingredients together with minimal ingredients to keep the natural cacao flavour. It describes the bar packaging as an illustration of founder Karl's journey from sailor to chocolate maker, designed with Ana Aceves of Sugarcube Studios. The site also offers a mailing list for chocolate news.
For chocolate lovers in Nelson and across New Zealand, Hogarth Chocolate Makers on Kotua Pl is a very highly rated local maker to look up.