International Gold Award Winning Chocolate 2019.
🍫 To produce world-class chocolates made from the highest quality and locally sourced cacao through education, innovation and sustainable production. Vision: To be the best chocolate maker that will put Philippines, especially Bohol to the World’s Chocolate Map. Mission: To produce world-class chocolates made from the highest quality and locally s
ourced cacao through education, innovation and sustainable production. OUR CHOCOLATE STORY
Dalareich had its humble beginnings in 1994; a small family business owned and managed by the couple Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo Polot with the help of their daughter Dalareich Polot in one of the island of the Philippines called Bohol. Through the years, the company has been manufacturing unsweetened chocolates or commonly known as TABLEYA in the Philippines used for hot chocolate drinks and chocolate rice porridge. The company has been distributing “tableya” to local supermarkets and malls and in the Philippines. Dalareich Tableya started operating with only 5 kilos of cacao, and generated a meager income which barely served a family of 7. Elsa Polot, a street cleaner, quit their day jobs to focus and work fulltime in the business after one of their daughters “Dalareich” graduated from college in 2009. Dalareich’s dream is to make bean-to-bar chocolate using their home grown cacao beans in Bohol, Philippines. In 2014, Dalareich dream came true. Dalareich was selected to study bean to bar making at Cacaolab of Ghent University in Belgium where she learned from the top chocolatiers in the world. Upon returning
to the Philippines she decided to launch Ginto Chocolates in her province, a social enterprise making bean-to-bar chocolates from locally grown cacao planted by small holder farmers from different small towns of her own province Bohol; known also of the its famous “Chocolate Hills”. September 8, 2017, the family opened “Dalareich Chocolate House”, where tourist who will visit Bohol, Philippines can see the whole production process and buy their chocolates. They also offer several chocolate workshops and events for locals and tourists. Today, aside from its thriving business and the international recognition it received, it recently bagged Gold at the prestigious London-based Academy of Chocolate Awards in 2019, Dalareich and the whole Polot family are not only reaping the rewards of everything they worked hard for, they are also giving back to their community by empowering the cacao farmers in many different ways through their advocacy ‘Adopt a Cacao Tree and Preserve’s Bohol Cacao Heritage’, the pilot project of which is the rehabilitation of heirloom cacao trees not only to preserve Bohol cacao heritage but also to help the farmers earn more income for their families.
