ChocolaTea™, our Top Pick Of The Week, is a special drink: a naturally sugar-free, dairy-free, vegan, dark chocolate beverage. It’s made from fermented, dried, and roasted organic cacao beans*.

It isn’t tea.

It isn’t a creamy drink like hot chocolate or cocoa (unless you want it to be).

Nor is it a product called drinking chocolate† (photo #6).

It’s a “cousin” of those, in a category all its own.

If you’re a fan of dark chocolate, we hope you’ll love this discovery as much as we do.

(We discovered ChocolaTea when it was picked as a Top Trend at a recent specialty food trade show).
 
 
CHOCOLATEA IS BREWED CHOCOLATE

The drink is brewed or steeped, like French Press coffee or loose tea leaves. Just add boiling water and the result is beautifully smooth and chocolaty.

ChocolaTea can be served like coffee and tea:

 
The company’s proprietary cacao bean blend and roasting process yields a ready-to-brew drink that is very different from what you’d get by simply grinding cacao beans.

(NOTE: Don’t try it—it won’t work.)

Drunk plain, ChocolaTea is only 20 calories per cup (photo #1), delivering the flavor of chocolate without the calories of hot chocolate or cocoa.

(The difference between hot chocolate and cocoa.)

ChocolaTea is:

 
 
THE FLAVORS OF CHOCOLATEA 

They’re all delicious, yielding deep, smooth, dark chocolate flavor.

We tasted four flavors. Our personal faves are Dark Chocolate and Dark Chocolate Mexican. Our next order may well include Dark Chocolate Chai.

 
 
HOW TO BREW CHOCOLATEA

The ground chocolate arrives in a bag like ground coffee (photo #3).

For a hot brew, a French press is the best way to go, but a fine mesh tea brewer also works.

For a cold brew, you can use a cold brew coffee maker pitcher with a very fine mesh filter basket.

The ChocolaTea website sells different teaware items as well as the ground chocolate.
 
 
GET YOUR CHOCOLATEA

Head to GlobalTeas.co.
 
 
KNOW YOUR CHOCOLATE

> Chocolate Glossary

> The history of chocolate.
 
 
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*For the record, fermented, dried, and roasted is the process that almost all cacao beans undergo prior to becoming chocolate or cocoa (the exception is raw chocolate, which is not roasted). Here’s how chocolate is made.

†Drinking chocolate consists of shaved, chopped, or roughly ground-up chocolate bars that melt into hot chocolate when mixed with hot milk or hot water (photo #5).

‡Cacao beans naturally contain a small amount of caffeine.

[1] Brewed in a French Press and ready to drink: 20-calorie ChocolaTea (photos #1 and #3 © Global Teas).

[2] Yes, you can add a bit of milk, just as with coffee (photo © Valrhona).

[3] Chocolatea is sold in bags like ground chocolate or loose tea.

[4] Chocolatea is made from ground, roasted cacao beans (photo © Theo Chocolate).

[5] Drinking Chocolate is a completely different product, composed of shaved, chopped, or roughly ground pieces of chocolate bar that melt into a drink when covered with hot milk or water (photo © Dolfin Chocolate).

[6] Cacao beans are most popularly turned into chocolate bars. Here’s the process (photo © Omnom Chocolate).