Our Story

Prafull's Tells A Tale.

This isn't a chocolate company that bought a farm. It's a farm that learned to make chocolate.

1985 · The First Tree

A grandfather, and a strange brown pod.

In 1985, Dr. Devangi Prafulla Chandra planted the first cocoa tree in Shivamogga district. He had read that the soil could take it.

Cocoa grows only 30 degrees north and south of the equator.

Four decades later, the tree he planted still stands. And around it, an entire grove, tended by the same families, generation after generation.

For my grandfather.

What we believe

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Cacao and cane sugar. Sometimes milk. Never emulsifiers, never shortcuts.

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We refine our chocolate for 72 hours. We will not scale at the cost of taste. Some bars sell out. That's fine.

Tree to bar

Harvest. Ripe pods are cut by hand from August to February.

Ferment. Five to seven days in jackfruit wooden boxes. This is where flavour is born.

Dry. Slow sun-drying for two weeks.

Roast & conch. Stone-ground for 72 hours in our Shivamogga workshop.

Hand Temper. Hand-moulded, hand-wrapped, hand-signed.

By hand, always

Every bar leaves our hands the slow way, poured, tempered, and finished one tray at a time.

Prafull's Tells A Tale