De Villiers Chocolate

Since inception, our goal was to do no harm to people or our planet and it’s something we have maintained throughout. We are proud to say that all of our products are free from gluten, artificial ingredients, palm oil, hydrogenated vegetable oil, are non-GMO and ethically and sustainably sourced.

All our cocoa beans are Rainforest Alliance certified. Our dark chocolate, nut butter chocolate and no-added-sugar chocolate is registered with the Vegan Society. Our no-added-sugar chocolate is Keto certified by the Paleo Foundation.

In 2010 Pieter de Villiers, and his wife Cornell, decided to convert the double garage of their Hermanus family home into a chocolate factory. Forever the down to earth, pragmatic man, he set off by designing and building all his own chocolate making machinery and equipment using repurposed domestic washing machines, ovens, fridges, hairdryers and vacuum cleaners. “It made no sense experimenting on a dream by buying new equipment. We needed to learn all we could about something we knew nothing about”. In the process he turned a double garage into a world-class chocolate factory  Today, ten years on, we’re still guided by his yearning and learning to make real chocolate. Because that’s how it all started. At the time we were the first bean to bar chocolate maker in South Africa. Today we’re still one of a handful of companies to produce premium chocolate on the African continent.

Located in the beautiful Cape Winelands of South Africa, an area renowned for its craftmanship in producing remarkable wines, we embrace the same principles in our chocolate-making process encompasses every ingredient, from our unique flavour cocoa beans, real vanilla pods, also from Uganda, and bespoke honeycomb, crunchy biscotti, and rich caramel, all made in our kitchen. We pride ourselves in making our chocolate from the bean to the finished bar. This means we can develop our own unique flavour profiles as we control all the critical processes from bean selection to roasting, grinding, refining and conching resulting in truly unique products.