Dark, gilded & utterly decadent
Six chocolate bars, stone-ground, tempered by hand and wrapped in real gold foil. Run your cursor along the top and the chocolate drips. Peel the foil and the bar is yours.
Six bars. No shortcuts.
Each one starts with the same single-origin cacao and ends somewhere a little different. Hover a bar to lift it from the shelf.
Turn it over. Crack it open.
Drag the bar to spin it and read the back of the wrapper. Crack it open to see what's inside.
Four bars. One perfect gift.
Pick any four bars and we nest them in a sable lacquer box tied with gold ribbon, with your message handwritten on the card. Tap the box to lift the lid.
Small details, slowly made
Everything about our bars is measured, from a grind you can't feel to the exact degree that gives the snap.
Twelve squares
A generous 2.5 oz bar scored into twelve squares, each stamped with our ampersand.
Stone-ground
Ground on granite for three days until it measures 18 microns, finer than the tongue can feel.
Hand-tempered
Worked on marble to the degree that gives a mirror shine and a slow, even melt.
Gold-wrapped
Folded in real gold foil, sleeved in its own color and numbered by batch.
The snap lives between 31 and 32 °C.
Tempering lines up cocoa butter into stable crystals. Too warm and chocolate sets dull and streaky; too cool and it seizes. Slide the thermometer and watch the finish change.
Or find your flavorTake a sweet break
Only real ingredients
Cacao, cane sugar, Carolina peaches and pecans, real honey and tea. No palm oil, no fake vanilla.
Made in small batches
Every bar is poured in small batches and numbered, so you always know exactly which one you're holding.
Wrapped to be given
Every order arrives in our sable box with gold foil, ready to give or to keep for yourself.
The chocolate bars
Free shipping over $60. Warm-weather orders ship with cold packs, Monday through Wednesday only. Add a name in gold to any bar.
Mix and match any bars; savings apply in your bag automatically. Not sure where to start? Take the flavor finder.
Build The Gilded Four
Choose any four bars. We nest them in a sable lacquer box tied with gold ribbon and tuck in a handwritten card. $68 for any four.
Let them choose.
A gold-edged digital gift card from $25 to $200, sent on the day you choose with your message.
Send a gift cardChocolate, by subscription
New seasonal bars before anyone else. Skip or cancel any month.
Your name, in gold.
Custom-sleeved bars for wedding favors, church anniversaries and client gifts, from 50 bars. We'll print your names, date or logo on the gold band.
Plan an orderBean to bar in four slow steps
It takes about nine days for a cacao bean to become a gold-wrapped bar.
Roast
Beans roast at 121 °C for 26 minutes to wake the fruit without burning the floral notes.
Winnow
The beans are cracked and the papery husk blown away, leaving the nibs that become chocolate.
Conch
Nibs and cane sugar turn in a granite grinder for 72 hours until silky.
Temper
Hand-tempered on marble to 31.5 °C, poured, cooled, foiled and numbered.
“Chocolate should feel like a gift before it is even unwrapped.”
Sable & Gild takes its name from heraldry. Sable is the old word for black and gild means to cover in gold: dark chocolate dressed in gold foil. Our seal, the script S&G, is pressed into every square.
We make six bars. Two are pure dark chocolate for people who love cacao as it is. The other four carry the South in them: Carolina peaches, Lowcountry pecans, sweet tea and wildflower honey. Every one is tempered by hand, wrapped in gold and numbered by batch.
Whole cacao beans from northern Peru are sorted by hand and slow-roasted.
The beans are cracked and winnowed, leaving only the nibs.
Nibs and cane sugar turn in a granite stone grinder for 72 hours until silky.
The chocolate rests so its flavor can settle and deepen.
Tempered on marble to 31.5 °C, poured, and filled with peach, pecan or tea.
Each bar is folded into gold foil, sleeved and stamped with its batch number.
Packed in an insulated sleeve and sent on its way to you.
Before you unwrap
How long does shipping take?
Orders leave our kitchen within two business days. Standard ground takes 3–6 business days; Express arrives in 2. Pickup in Columbia is free.
Will it melt on the way?
From May through September every order ships with a cold pack and an insulated sleeve, and only Monday through Wednesday so nothing sits in a warehouse over the weekend.
How should I store a bar?
Cool and dry, between 15 and 18 °C, away from strong smells. Skip the refrigerator; humidity causes sugar bloom. Unopened bars keep for 12 months.
What are the allergens?
Everything is made in a kitchen that handles milk, tree nuts, peanuts and soy. Sea Island Praline contains pecans. The Signature 72% and Midnight 90% contain no milk ingredients but may contain traces.
Can I put a name on a bar?
Yes. On any bar's page, add a personal sleeve for $4 and we'll print up to 18 characters on the gold band. For 50 or more, see Weddings & corporate gifts.
Can I return chocolate?
Food can't be returned, but if anything arrives damaged or melted, send a photo within 7 days and we'll replace it.
Write to the kitchen
Custom orders, weddings, corporate gifts, press, or a note about your favorite bar.
Email
info@woodcrestunlimited.com
Phone
(803) 599-6163
Kitchen
Columbia, South Carolina
Saved for later
Tap the heart on any bar to keep it here. Your list stays on this device.
Give them the gold
Sent by email with your message. Never expires, and it's good for every bar, box and subscription.
Every bar earns you gold
Earn a point for every dollar. Every 100 points takes $10 off your next order. Points start at sign-up, so your first bar counts.
Join free
Sign up below with your email and birthday month.
Earn points
1 point for every $1, more as you move up the tiers.
Redeem
100 points = $10 off, applied at checkout.
Birthday bar
A free bar of your choice every birthday month.
Rise through the gold
Tiers are based on points earned in a calendar year.
- 1 point per $1
- Free birthday bar
- Members-only drops
- 1.25 points per $1
- Free standard shipping
- 48-hour early access to new bars
- 1.5 points per $1
- Free personal sleeves
- Invitations to tasting nights
Share the gold
Give friends $10 off their first order of $40 or more. When they buy, you get $10 too.
Start earning today
From Tumbes to Columbia
Our cacao grows in the Tumbes region of far northern Peru, on the Pacific coast just south of the equator. Then it travels north to our kitchen in South Carolina.
We pay above Fairtrade price for every sack of beans, and we buy from the same cooperative year after year so farmers can plan their harvests.
Before the beans reach us
Harvest
Ripe pods are cut from the trunk by hand and split open to free the beans and their sweet white pulp.
Ferment
Beans rest in wooden boxes for six days. This is where chocolate flavor is born.
Dry
Seven days on raised beds in the sun, turned by hand, until the beans are ready to travel.
Ship
Sacks travel north to Columbia, where roasting begins day one of a bar's life.
What to pour with it
Choose a bar to see the wine, coffee, spirit, tea and cheese that bring out its best.
Recipes, rituals & know-how
How to taste, store and cook with our bars.
Carry Sable & Gild
We're choosing our first stockists: boutiques, gift shops, cafés, hotels and church bookstores who want a bar worth talking about.
| Minimum order | 24 bars, mixed flavors |
| Display | Free gold countertop display with your first order |
| Lead time | 5–7 business days |
| Custom sleeves | Your shop's name on the gold band from 50 bars |
For writers & editors
Brand facts, our seal and colors. For interviews, samples and photography, write to the kitchen.
| Name | Sable & Gild Chocolatiers |
| Based in | Columbia, South Carolina |
| Made by | WoodCrest Confectionery |
| Range | Six bars, from 34% caramelized white to 90% dark |
| Price | $14–$18 a bar |
| Signature detail | Real gold foil, and a personal name printed on the band |
| Press contact | info@woodcrestunlimited.com |
Type: Gloock for headlines, Pinyon Script for the ampersand and accents, Jost for text.
Come and play
Six games to play between bites. Your best scores are saved on this device.
Catch the Drops
Slide the gold mold to catch melted chocolate. Gold flakes are worth 5. Dodge the water: one drop seizes the chocolate.
Catch the Drops
- Move with your mouse, finger, or the arrow keys
- Chocolate drop: 1 point
- Gold flake: 5 points
- Water drop: lose a heart. Three and you're out.
Why water? Even a drop makes melted chocolate seize into a thick, grainy paste.
Temper Master
- The thermometer swings back and forth
- Pour when it reads between 31 and 32 °C
- Each perfect pour makes it swing faster
- Miss three times and the batch is ruined
This is the real tempering window for dark chocolate: it's what gives a bar its shine and snap.
Every pair found
Wrapper Match
- Flip two gold wrappers at a time
- Find all six matching pairs of bars
- Fewer moves is better
Bonbon Crush
Swap neighboring bonbons to line up three or more. Match four or five to make a gold truffle, then match it to clear its whole row and column.
Bonbon Crush
- Swipe or tap two neighboring bonbons to swap them
- Line up 3 or more of a kind to clear them
- Match 4+ to make a gold truffle
- A gold truffle in a match clears its row and column
- Chain reactions multiply your score
- You have 25 moves. Fill the bar to reach 3,000.
Tower of Bars
A bar slides back and forth. Drop it onto the stack. Whatever hangs over the edge snaps off, so your bars get smaller. Land three perfect drops in a row to grow it back.
Tower of Bars
- Tap, click, or press the space bar to drop
- Overhanging chocolate breaks off
- Line it up exactly for a perfect drop
- 3 perfects in a row makes your bar bigger
- It slides faster as the tower grows
Chocolatier Rush
Customers are lining up for custom bars. Choose the chocolate, the add-in and the finish, then tap their ticket to serve it before their patience runs out.
Chocolatier Rush
- Each ticket asks for a chocolate, an add-in and a finish
- Build the bar, then tap the matching ticket
- Faster service earns bigger tips
- A wrong bar costs $3
- Let a customer walk out and you lose a star
- The shop closes after 90 seconds, or when your stars run out