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Master chocolatier Rasmus Bo Bojesen founded the company in 2010.

Rasmus Bo Bojesen dreamt of creating hes own organic chocolate. At that time, he was a trained chocolatier and had worked professionally with chocolate for many years. But they struggled to find organic cocoa of sufficiently high quality. The search went on for years.

In Bolivia Oialla cooperate with a small bolivian family business. They work with collecting the beans and the part of the processing that may take place in the jungle. This with collaboration has grown into a friendship between this familiy despite the long distance between Denmark and Bolivia.

Danida has provided financial assistance and secured high standards for CSR and productivity. Today, Rasmus Bo Bojesen continuously receives these beautiful pure cocoa beans, which are made into organic chocolate of a very special caliber in close cooperation with a smaller organic certified Danish chocolate factory.

When Oialla started in 2010 few paid attention to bean-to-bar or single origin chocolate. Today ambitious chocolatiers and companies have realised the potential of knowing where the cocoa comes from. Using wild cocoa gives us the oppurtunity to create chocolate with exquisite taste while caring for the environment and the indigenous rainforest people of Bolivia and South Columbia.

One night while attending a dinner party a Danish producer of organic cereals told Rasmus Bo Bojesen about wild cocoa trees growing in the Beni-province of Bolivia. By chance the Danish Foreign Ministry hosted a conference in Bolivia and Bojesen got an invite.

Since the middle of 2020 Rasmus Bo Bojesen has investigated the opportunities for collecting wild cocoa beans from Columbia Rainforest areas as well. We expect the search to add new flavorsed exquisite tastes to the Oialla brand.

Our Mission

There is no forced child labour in Baures, Bolivia – the home of Oialla’s Beniano cocoa. This is certified and an absolute prerequisite for Oialla to cooperate with local cocoa company, Sumar. The local children are offered free and compulsory primary school and are busy with their studies most of the year.

In many areas of Bolivia the classical stereotypes of men and women still exists. Men are raised to be patriarchs – masculine, strong and hardworking. Meanwhile women take care of the home, meals and children.

To support working women and women empowerment, we therefor aim to recruit mainly women to work with processing the cocoa.

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Oialla is pure, wild and organic

Oialla chocolate is an organic Danish award-winning chocolate made from wild beans. The cacao trees grow in the Amazon region of Central and South America. Oialla is chocolate in the purest form imaginable, and we control the entire process from bean to bar. Our chocolate is recognized by professional chefs in some of the best restaurants around the world.

Awards won by Oialla

Steen Hermansen

15:56 29 Aug 23

Probably some of the very best chocolate I've ever tasted! You can clearly taste the deep complexity associated with these wild and rare cocoa beans, which, with the great expertise of their chocolatiers, have been taken to an unheard of high level, with a sublime taste experience in all their varieties.

Christian Okkerhjelm-Andersen

15:39 29 Aug 23

Oialla is by far the best chocolate I've come across, and I've come across many. Their 100% chocolate is completely unique.

Nils Bechsgaard

15:10 29 Aug 23

Chocolate fanatics, geeks and anyone who likes quality chocolate should know this address. For many years I have bought Bojens Chokolade and with the latest development to Oialla, Rasmus Bo Bojesen has reached the top in chocolate making. Only approx. 2% of the chocolate beans are criollo, Spanish for native, and here we are working with a wild-growing variety that is even more rare and in demand, namely Beniano. Pure ecology, zero additives, only cane sugar, and it gives pure pleasure when you let this exclusive chocolate melt in your mouth. It is of course also a joy to see a Dane perform world-class chocolate. I have thoroughly gone through French and Belgian chocolate over the past several years and Oialla now has the lead. My personal favorite variant is 72%, it has a really nice mouthfeel, not too fat, not too dry, a nice crack, so the technical level is high. Most important is the taste, rich, rich, elegant, floral, with quite a nice tartness that balances the sweetness, but try for yourself.The logistics have been working well, so thanks to Rasmus.

mick dyreholt

14:31 29 Aug 23

I have always sworn by milk chocolate as I thought it tasted like good chocolate. But one day I ran into Rasmus showing some work and after a chat I got a plate of chocolate that was 78 percent. Thought it should just go on the shelf and put away. But to my great surprise, I tasted some chocolate that I had never tried before. My big mistake was to let my wife taste it and she, like me, has become addicted to their 78 percent chocolate and we are now running on ten kg and the wife says in good time. Remember to order chocolate, I know I'm going to run out.I thought you should try 78 percent because it doesn't taste like a 78 percent, which is usually bitter. But here you have the real taste of good quality chocolate beans.

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