Chocolatier RICHART

Treat family, friends, business associates and employees to gourmet French chocolates crafted from ingredients carefully selected for quality and prepared from a family formula. RICHART Chocolates invites you to explore their selection of gourmet chocolate gifts and give chocolate lovers an experience of unforgettable pleasure. Make the holidays something truly memorable with a gift of Limited Edition RICHART Handmade Truffles, available in 3 flavors.

Chocolate has an intensely personal history for each of us. It is a joy to give and receive and represents sweet memories, love, childhood, gratitude, happiness and, above all, pleasure. But what is the true history of chocolate? The gods, it is said, have been watching over the cocoa tree - "cahuaquahiti" - for thousands of years.

In 1778, a Parisian invented the first machine that could grind, mix and compress chocolate. In 1825, Antoine Brutus Menier built the first mechanized chocolate factory in Noisel-sur-Marne, marking the debut of the modern chocolate works and sweet entrance of chocolate into the lives of every man woman and child in the world.

Chocolatier RICHART, your French chocolate maker, is truly dedicated to producing fine chocolates for chocolate lovers around the world. RICHART’S devotion to creating fine chocolate and the art of the chocolatier is unmatched by other chocolate companies. Each taste sensation is the product of a cherished family chocolate making tradition:

Michel RICHART, Chocolatier, summarizes the rich history of RICHART and its continued commitment to delighting its customers. "The history of RICHART begins in 1925 on the Croix Rousse hill in Lyons France. On this site, my father - Joseph RICHART, master chocolatier - maintained his laboratory.

My childhood was sweet, indeed, and instilled in my siblings and myself a taste for the highest quality, a passion for all things beautiful, and a love for work well done. Two generations later, we consider it our daily mission to seek out both an inexhaustible supply of the finest cocoa the world has to offer and, along with it, an equally endless amount of the happiness and pleasure that chocolate has to offer.

It is my sincere hope that you derive as much pleasure from tasting and sharing RICHART chocolate as we take in creating it for you."