Our Story
Casa Bosques is a chocolate house built on curiosity about where chocolate comes from, how it's made, and what it can become.
We take pleasure seriously. Chocolate deserves care at every step: the farm, the roast, the flavor, the ingredient. What we look for is rightness, meaning the right bean, the right ingredient beside it, the right meeting of cultures.
We work with small ranches across Mexico, buying heirloom cacaos and other rare varieties from farmers we know. Then we make every bar ourselves, bean to bar, in our factory in New York, with the same care the farmers give to growing it.
Our chocolate begins with two ingredients: fine cacao and organic cane sugar. Kept that simple, each bean is free to taste like itself.
We never add emulsifiers, artificial flavorings or preservatives.
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ALL INGREDIENTS ALLOWED
Blue corn, leaves, malt, sesame paste, roses, ants, preserved lemon, something from the Japanese market down the street, a nut from India. A chocolate shaped like a bar of soap; a chocolate as a sculpture.
Blue corn, leaves, malt, sesame paste, roses, ants, preserved lemon, something from the Japanese market down the street, a nut from India. A chocolate shaped like a bar of soap; a chocolate as a sculpture.
We pay no attention to convention, and every attention to craft. The rule is that there are no rules about what belongs in chocolate, only about how well it's made.
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ARTIST SERIES
From the start, Casa Bosques has worked with artists. The creative team at Savvy Studio, in Mexico City and New York, develops each edition alongside the artist, so the flavor, the form and the wrapper are imagined together.
From the start, Casa Bosques has worked with artists. The creative team at Savvy Studio, in Mexico City and New York, develops each edition alongside the artist, so the flavor, the form and the wrapper are imagined together.
Each artist edition is a work you can eat.
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Casa Bosques is a project by Rafael Prieto, founder and creative director of Savvy Studio, a design practice based in Mexico City and New York.
