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Thank-you to everyone who enjoyed our chocolates this Christmas. We are taking a break online until January 5th...

Cocoa Mountain Balnakeil and Auchterarder OPEN during the Christmas holidays...

We are once again offering customers the opportunity to receive one item completely free when buying any five items. Thank you for your custom and best wishes for the coming festive season

We are excited to say that our collections for Christmas 2011 will be launched very soon

Thank you for visiting

For a FREE afternoon concert on Friday 5th August, Cocoa Mountain Balnakeil

Saturday 25th June - 18th July 2011
12 noon to 5pm every day

An invitation to visit Lotte Glob for a major retrospective '50 Years in Clay'

We recommend bypassing the supermarket for a traditional High Street shopping trip this Easter - and drop into Cocoa Mountain AUCHTERARDER too...read on

Available now from Cocoa Mountain BALNAKEIL and AUCHTERARDER, and ONLINE

Cocoa Mountain Auchterarder, 154 High Street, Auchterarder, Perthshire

We welcome customers for delicious truffles, Hot Chocolate, and coffee 

open daily 8.30am - 5.00pm (sunday 11am - 4pm)

Ishbel Macdonald has penned a short history of the Balnakeil Craft Village, which is available to view on the Durness Community Council website. Please send this link to your friends and help us promote our extraordinary little village: http://www.durness.org/Balnakeil%20Craft%20Village.htm

Surprise your loved one to a delicious box of truffles from Cocoa Mountain Auchterarder and enjoy a complementary glass of bubbly! www.cocoamountain.co.uk/auchterarder.asp

We remain open online every day during January, and our Auchterarder and Balnakeil outlets will also be open at the following times... 

We are happy to announce the opening of our new shop and cafe in Auchterarder. Carol and the Team, along with Paul and James look forward to welcoming customers old and new 

Our Christmas order book is bursting at the seams and we will be closing our website to Christmas orders from midnight tonight 17th December 2010. If you would like to make any orders for Christmas delivery, we ask you to place your order before this time. Thank you.

Our website will remain open throughout the festive period, with orders for January delivery being dispatched on Thursday 6th January 2011

With the opening of the new Cocoa Mountain in Auchterarder imminent, it is a great pleasure to introduce Carol Wood who will be your host there! Many people may already know Carol as she has spent quite some time with us in Balnakeil over recent months...

We are excitedly working very hard to launch a NEW Cocoa Mountain in Auchterarder, Perthshire, and will be providing latest updates here on the website. Thanks to everyone for the messages of support!  ...more

We love getting feedback from our customers (see below) but this picture is really quite disturbing - even for us! Thanks for sending it in though!

...our absolutely yummy milk chocolate TOFFEE TRUFFLE. This delicious delight is one of our most popular truffles and a genuine favourite with everybody. Fresh milk chocolate ganache with soft toffee sauce running through it, intense caramel flavour...Oh my! And at only £13.90 for a box of 20 chocolates (including all UK p&p) you'd be crazy to miss it

We receive quite a few requests like the one below, and are always, sadly, forced to say that we cannot help...

Remember that the only place you can enjoy the best HOT CHOCOLATE for the time being is here in Balnakeil!

Thank you to everyone who showed interest in these positions, which are now filled. If you would like to be considered for next year then please send us your details

The perfect coffee table book has arrived...

We are all devastated by the news of the death of our very dear friend and colleague Barbara Morrison, who died of cancer on Tuesday

We enjoy receiving feedback from our customers. Many, many thanks for all of the good wishes and supportive emails we received lately due to the Food and Drink Excellence Awards. We would like to show this particular email from Kirsty, which arrived this morning and means a great deal to us...

Thanks to everyone who voted and helped us win...and we're on the 5.30 Show tonight at 5.30 (STV)

The launch of Mike McCartney's North Highlands Exhibition at the Scottish Parliament was a great success - check out this footage of the event from STV News. We particularly enjoyed the chocolate that was served with the whisky (...and the whisky that was served with the chocolates)

http://video.stv.tv/bc/entertainment-fivethirtyentertainment-fivethirty-20090128-mike-mccartney/

Welcome back!

We are absolutely overwhelmed with emotion today as our NEW Chocolate Bar in Balnakeil is now open! Over the next few weeks we intend to put together a gallery of the journey, and provide more information about the extended services and facilities we can now offer.

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to customers and friends old and new.

We are open, as usual, from 9am to 6pm, every day.

Thanks,

Paul and James

Our premises from June 2006 to July 2008 have now closed.

We would like to thank all of our customers and staff who have helped make the experience so fantastic and enjoyable.

Paul and James

We would like to apologise to customers trying to reach us by telephone, and who are currently unable to do so.

Because of our pending move into our new premises we had asked BT to begin the process of transferring our line. This was in may 2008. Two weeks ago, our phones were stopped, but never re-connected. We have therefore had NO incoming or outgoing phone line for 2 weeks.

We think this is terrible. We think it's a disgrace. We are very sorry that it is inconveniencing our customers, and ourselves at this important and difficult time. We are unable to do anything about it.

If you would like to help, please email our BT customer service assistant, Trish (who is actually rather nice - it's not her fault), and complain on our behalf. Trish's email is:

trish.sullivan@bt.com

Many thanks, apologies again, we really appreciate your patience.

Paul and James

But where is everyone?

Suitable for all weather conditions, we introduce the Cocoa Mountain organic cotton T-Shirt...

Believe it or not, Durness has been sunny for over 3 weeks now, so we've had to lay on T-Shirts for hot customers

More...

We are excited to be recommended in a new guide to Scotland...