Present

The wife/husband chocolate team behind Xocolatl, Elaine Read and Matt Weyandt, make their first appearance here at Chocolate Connoisseur with this super-tempting “Welcome to Fall” chocolate offer — the Autumn Trio Utra.

Ready for some cooler weather? Xocolatl’s stunning chocolate bar trio highlights a seasonal shift with flavors of coffee, sea salt, and coconut milk, with a playful nod to Halloween.

This Chocolate Connoisseur Exclusive bundle also includes a bag of Xocolatl’s Organic Cacao Nibs, from Peruvian cacao, making it the perfect restart of our chocolate season here, after the long hot summer!

If you’re new to this outstanding small batch ATL chocolate maker, Matt and Elaine share a very fun story of how Xocolatl came to be right here. But most importantly, you’ll want to know their mission:

• Produce chocolate that delights & satisfies
• Discover & share the true value and awesomeness of chocolate
• Positively impact livelihoods, health, and sustainability through focused growth

Xocolatl bases their sourcing model three principles: Quality, Sustainability and Ethics —

“We know people expect delicious chocolate, but we center ourselves around delivering delicious chocolate that our customers will also feel great about eating.

This type of direct trade model goes even further than the positive improvements created by the fair trade certification system. By working directly with these individuals and organizations and visiting their farms whenever we can, we seek to develop long-term trading relationships built on mutual trust, reliability, fairness and respect.

We hope that when you bite into our chocolate, you enjoy the deliciousness of our high quality ingredients and the knowledge that your spending supports sustainable farming and forest management & the families who practice it.”

As for the name Xocolatl (pronounced “chock-oh-LAH-tul”), it comes from the original word for chocolate from the Nahuatl language spoken by Aztecs and Mayans, who prepared xocolatl as a sugarless drink made of ground cacao, spices, water and cornmeal. “Xocol” means bitter and “atl” means water.

As an Atlanta, GA based company, Matt and Elaine knew that was a perfect fit — honoring the ancient cultures who first invented chocolate, connecting modern chocolate lovers with its long history in the Americas, and of course, they just couldn’t pass up the ATL in the name!

Offer ends October 20th or while supplies last.