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Chocolate and chutney at Jade Mountain, St Lucia

TIME : 2016/2/26 9:41:47

Voted as one of the best luxury resorts in the world, Jade Mountain is located in the grounds of the old Anse Mamin Plantation, and just 20 minutes away from Nick Troubetzkoy’s organic rain forest farm, the Emerald Estate. With fantastic culinary resources and the exquisite skills of chef Allan Susser, Jade Mountain offers only the best locally sourced produce, presenting exotic and delicious dishes for all appetites.

With gourmet festivals throughout the year, great emphasis is put on Caribbean tastes and flavours at Jade Mountain, introducing specialist tastings and cookery workshops for guests. Now, for the fist time you can take the Jade Mountain flavour home with you, with a variety of chocolates and chutneys hand made and sold on site.

Experience the true taste of the Caribbean with Jade Mountain’s hand made fruit chutneys and marmalades. With tropical fruits and citrus sourced from Anse Mamin and the Emerald Estate these products are produced in small qualities producing the finest quality product. Using the freshest spices and home grown chillies Jade Mountain has produced an explosion of flavours, including Hot Banana and Cinnamon, Passion Fruit and Carambola, Grayham Mango and Black Stap Molasses and Pink Guava and Ginger.

New for 2010, Jade Mountain has also begun production of their first home grown chocolate, using 3rd generation cocoa beans from the Emerald Estate. With in house production, the chocolate making process is fully controlled from growing to fermenting and drying, producing chocolate of exquisite quality and flavour. With a range of products from chocolate truffles, traditional St. Lucian chocolate tea stix, chocolate chip pancakes and chocolate cabernet sorbet, all served in the restaurant and with certain products sold in the hotel gift shop, your experience of Jade Mountain will be choctastic!

Caribtours offers 7 nights at Jade Mountain, Saint Lucia from 2,995 per person staying in a Sky Jacuzzi Suite on All Inclusive (complimentary upgraded from Bed and Breakfast). Price includes return scheduled flights with Virgin Atlantic, private transfers and use of a private lounge at Gatwick.