Amano Artisan Chocolate

07/23/2025

Only a few crops in the world are actual tree-huggers. Take our star ingredient, the cocoa pod. Unlike most fruits that hang from branches, cocoa pods grow directly from the trunk and main branches of the cacao tree. It's one of nature's coolest tricks, bringing you the delicious chocolate you love!

01/31/2025

Roses are red, violets are blue, our Raspberry Rose chocolate is waiting for you! 😉
The perfect way to show your sweetheart (or yourself!) some love this Valentine's Day to compliment your flowers.
10% off your Valentine's Day order with code: ValentinesTen (Valid until Valentine's Day)

Amano is a chocolate company where the word “compromise” is never spoken and where quality and flavor reign supreme.

01/07/2025

If there is one chocolate bar that gives us notoriety, it would probably be our Dos Rios dark chocolate, featuring cocoa from the Dominican Republic.

With tasting notes of Bergamot Orange, Jasmine, Lavender, blueberries, and spice; this dark chocolate is unlike any other.

All of our single-origin dark chocolates feature the same four simple ingredients:
Cocoa beans
Pure Cane Sugar
Cocoa Butter
Whole Vanilla Beans

Your varying tasting notes, as a result, are due to the origin of the cocoa bean.

We'd love to hear what Dos Rios means to you!

12/27/2024

Craving a decadent chocolate treat? Look no further! Our Cuyagua 70% dark chocolate is crafted with some of the best cocoa in the world.
This is the third bar we ever made here at Amano, with some very special beans from the Cuyagua Valley. Recounting his visit with the farmers in Cuyagua, Amano founder, Art Pollard, said:

"I gave each famer a bar we had made from their cocoa, bars that I had carefully kept cool my entire trip. They were incredibly happy. Next, I broke off a square from an extra bar so that each farmer might taste it right then. They had never before tasted chocolate made exclusively with their beans, and the wonder in their eyes was amazing.

The highlight of the whole experience for me was when one old farmer came up and said: 'This chocolate is like a river.' Thinking it an odd comment, I asked him what he meant by it. He said, 'This chocolate takes you on a journey. Its flavor takes you to all the wild and wonderous places, and it goes on and on — like a river.'”

Experience a symphony of taste from these exquisite cocoa beans that we carefully bring out to its fullest potential, through our rich, and flavorfully-complex dark chocolate.

12/21/2024

The Secret Behind Great Chocolate 🍫
Did you know that lots of the magic of chocolate comes from your fermentation?
Cocoa beans undergo a complex process of fermentation, where they develop the flavors and aromas that make chocolate so delicious.
At Amano, we carefully seek high quality fermentation processes to bring you the finest chocolate. We will not put forward a product with a subpar ferment, which is often used in commodity chocolate.

Amano is a chocolate company where the word “compromise” is never spoken and where quality and flavor reign supreme.

12/20/2024

It takes about one pod to create one of our bars of fine chocolate.

Amano is committed to sourcing the finest cocoa beans, directly from farmers we partner with. We pay premium prices to ensure fair compensation and sustainable practices.
Each bar is crafted with meticulous care, using techniques tailored to each unique origin of cocoa. This dedication results in a complex and flavorful chocolate experience, often compared to the nuances of fine wine.

Amano is a chocolate company where the word “compromise” is never spoken and where quality and flavor reign supreme.

12/18/2024

Made with real raspberry fruit and using cocoa sourced from Ecuador, our Raspberry Rose bar has been a true favorite from our following.

Perfect for:

-A romantic evening
-A special occasion
-A self-care moment

Having placed awards internationally from the International Chocolate Awards in 2022, 2023, and 2024. This is truly a special, one-of-a-kind dark chocolate.

12/13/2024

One of the things we have always found most wonderful about chocolate is how unlike it is from so many other foods: it reaches in and touches a person’s soul. Few foods do that, and none that we are aware of do so so completely.

12/10/2024

It's time for a new single-origin chocolate bar. Our new 70% Dark features cocoa from the vicinity of the town of San Ignacio, Belize. El Cayo is now available for purchase on our website!

Tasting notes of Raspberries, Pears, Dried Cherries, and Plums

Belize is the true home for vanilla and home to some of the world’s finest cocoa which we used to make this chocolate. While working out the basic formula for this chocolate, someone we work with delivered samples to the President of Belize. What an honor!

11/03/2024

I’ve had a little side project. As many of you know, I grew up in part in Los Alamos New Mexico. Literally across the street from the foothills of the Jemez mountains and down the street from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The food in New Mexico is wonderful. So for my little side project, I’ve put together a New Mexican cookbook. It has over 1,200 recipes and is the largest New Mexican cookbook created. Many of the recipes are very traditional which is the comfort food I prefer.

If you would like a copy, you can order a copy at:

With over 1,200 recipes, Enchantment is the largest and most ambitious collection of New Mexican recipes to date. With recipes for Green Chile Stew to Enchiladas, to Natillas (custard), Enchantment draws on New Mexico's many cultures.

07/31/2023

“When planning this bar, I reached out to my good friend Mark Bitterman (of Bitterman Salts). He is a great guy and perhaps the country’s leading expert on exotic salts. We chose this beautiful Japanese sea salt that is hand made from ocean water pumped from the ocean’s depths where the sea water is ultra pure. The cocoa we use to make the milk chocolate comes from Ocumare, Venezuela (one of my favorites) and the nibs are made with cocoa from Ecuador. You will love this very special milk chocolate.”

Amano is a chocolate company where the word “compromise” is never spoken and where quality and flavor reign supreme.