Comments on: Cocoa Farm Shiraz Chocolate Wine Barrels

By: Kath Lockett

Kath Lockett — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:48:51 +0000

Congratulations Clare! The reason you’ve had some difficulty finding ‘Cocoa Farm’ on the web is because their company name is ‘Farm By Nature’. You could try visiting their website – http://www.farmbynature.com.au or emailing them – info@farmbynature.com.au or calling 1800 262621.
Good luck, Kath

By: Clare Page

Clare Page — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:10:29 +0000

Hi Kath,
Im getting married soon at a winery and thought these little barrels would be a perfect favour for my guests. Im trying to find a website where I can buy them online but cant seem to find any. Can you help??/

By: George Tweedale

George Tweedale — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:31:11 +0000

Thanks Kath for your suggestion. I followed it and many others but failed. It seems as if although there has been a substantial harvest of north Queensland Cocoa beans. All of the harvest is under contract to the Australia Cocoa Company and they will not sell beans. While I understand that most people are only interested in processed cocoa products, there are those like me who are interested in the raw bean for its medicinal and health benefits. Once they do all there processing of the bean these benefits are lost. It just so happens that the raw bean has the highest amount of cancer fighting antioxidant in the vegetable kingdom and other very benifical rare substances that are lost in processing.

By: stormy

stormy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:28:15 +0000

Kath
Well I am not 100% sure that the cocoa farm query has been cleared up. Kara’s post was correct there does not appear to be any Australian cocoa in these products and while they say they have changed their packaging/website they still infer that there is OZ cocoa in their products and they own the NQ plantations which they dont. This is misleading and last I checked deliberately decieving consumers is against the law. I certaInly hope that they do not try and align themselves with fairtrade based on this BS.

By: Kath Lockett

Kath Lockett — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:30:13 +0000

George
Cocoa Farm are likely to be your best bet at this stage because they are the only chocolate company actually trying to grow cocoa beans in Australia. I’m not sure if they’ve had a first harvest yet, so when you find out, let me know!
Best of luck!

By: George Tweedale

George Tweedale — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:18:15 +0000

Hi Kath, I love your articles. I was wondering if you could help me. I am trying to find out where I can buy a few kilos of raw, dried, north Queensland cocoa beans. They can be fermented or not.
Thanks, George.

By: river

river — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:22:54 +0000

I spotted Cocoa Farm chocolate in a little side street off Rundle Mall and bought a small bar of Lime and Chilli chocolate to try. When I got it home and unwrapped it, I was very disappointed to find the chocolate badly heat damaged, it was VERY white, dry and had no flavour left at all apart from the little bite of chilli. I threw the rest away. I’m willing to give it another try though.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:43:08 +0000

These sound devine!
I love the Cocoa Farm orange chocolate but haven’t had a chance to try any other flavours as I haven’t found many places stocking them. I’ve seen a few online stores that have most of their range so I may have to dust off the old credit card ;)