The South Pacific Cacao & Chocolate Artisan Journey

It all started when…

South Pacific Cacao & Chocolate Artisan Jessica Pedemont partnered together early in 2020 through a collaboration of a boutique chocolate factory & a shared passion.

This was the culmination of a five year cacao journey, which included supporting farming communities in the Solomon Islands to produce award-winning cacao beans and establishing premium supply chains into Australia, New Zealand and the competitive European craft chocolate market.

Many years before that Jessica and Brian of South Pacific Cacao decided they we would team up to create a new social enterprise pathway that linked Brain’s work in the South Pacific with the fine artisan markets in Sydney that was front and centre for Jessica. Cacao and chocolate would be the start but the sky was the limit!

South Pacific Cacao has been a while in the crafting and opened in the beautiful foodie destination of Ramsay St, Haberfield, NSW which is Jessica’s local neighbourhood.

After a long 20 year career in IT, Brian took a break a to work fulltime on his cacao social enterprise in the Solomon Islands, supporting local farming communities on his home island of Makira to access premium markets and earn a better and fairer income.

How can you be part of the South Pacific Cacao Journey?

1) Visit the website www.southpacificcacao.com and place an order for some amazing craft chocolate.

2) Like South Pacific Cacao social media pages on Facebook and Instagram and subscribe to our website blog.

3) Support the other local chocolate makers in Australia who make chocolate themselves from cacao beans. You can see the full list of them here. You will pay three or four times the price of a chocolate bar from common supermarkets, but this is the difference between a beautifully crafted wine and a very cheap, poor quality cask wine. Your standard chocolate bar from the supermarket will often have a dozen ingredients (with high percentage of cheap sugar). A high quality craft chocolate bar only needs 2 or 5 ingredients at most, with the unique flavour in a dark chocolate coming from the single origin / single estate / smallholder farm cacao beans. Plus these chocolate makers can pay farmers up to more than double what they earn from supplying the larger commercial supply chain brands. They certainly do if sourcing through Makira Gold.

South Pacific Cacao is co-located at 74 Ramsay St, Haberfield with Jessica’s Chocolate Artisan brand.