Aruntam Sensory Chocolate
San Giuliano Milanese, Italy
Pia Rivera founded Aruntam Chocolate in 2019. She is the heart of this company. She follows each step through the supply chain, from sourcing the raw materials and cacao beans through the entire processing. She creates all recipes and products in the organic certified laboratory in San Giuliano Milanese. Aruntam takes great care to preserve the natural flavors of their ingredients. They select only best cacao beans creating chocolate that is minimally processed to capture its true essence. This bean to bar company has won numerous international awards.
Italian Chocolate Maker
Pia was born and raised in a small town in the Amazonia region of Ecuador. The word Aruntam comes from a native tribe in the region it means spirit of courage. Pia feels it is this spirit that gave her the courage to create Aruntam Chocolate. It’s what drives her to know all aspects of her chocolate from sourcing the materials to creating the bars. Pia embodies Aruntam.
Aruntam Chocolate has 3 distinct collections. Their “Cultivars” a single origin collection consisting of dark, milk and white chocolate bars. Their “Italian Life Style” series that focuses on pairing chocolate with high quality, locally grown Italian ingredients. Their collection “Faces of the World” brings the faces of the people behind each bar paying tribute to their hard work. All their chocolate collections focus on finding harmony between the taste while maintaining purity of the cacao.
“The cacao we use respects the Direct & Eco Trade philosophy, where the agreements are directly concluded with producers in the countries of origin and the cacao purchased directly from them. In this way the independent development of the communities that cultivate this wonderful fruit is promoted. This system allows us to have total control of the channeling system of our most important raw material, and it is the same philosophy we try to maintain with all ingredients used in our production.”
—Pia Rivera
Their chocolate is Certified Organic, Vegan, Direct & Eco Trade, Biological and Raw Minimally Processed Chocolate reflecting their values of protecting the environment, respecting the people and devotion to quality ingredients.