ABOUT TRI-ISLAND CHOCOLATE
about us
Tri Island Chocolate is a tree to bar chocolate maker from Grenada, based in Saint George’s. Tri-Island consists of a chocolate factory in the parish of St Georges and farm tours taking place across their farm in St Andrews. The inception of the company has been a long journey for its founder, farmer and chief chocolate maker Aaron Sylvester. Since leaving the fast-paced music industry as an executive for Atlantic Records and SonyMusic RCA, representing artists from Joss Stone, Usher Raymond, U2 and fellow West London born Grenadian, Estelle. He has traversed the globe including stops in Spain to participate in the famous Bull Run in San Fermin to chasing the Northern Lights in Iceland to experiences across Asia including Thailand, Vietnam and the world famous Holi Festival in India.
The road has been a long one for Aaron from London to Grenada, where at a young age both he and his brother would spend the summer holidays visiting their Grandparents and sister. They would later inherit a small portion of land littered with cocoa and spice trees from their late Grandparents Fitzy and Veronica Sylvester. It was Aaron the younger brothers desire to strive to combine Grenada’s exquisite fruits and spices and incorporate them into the islands fine flavoured cacao to produce unique chocolate flavours and to continue trailblazing the path left by the Godfather of Tree-to-Bar chocolate making Mott Green and his co-founders from the Grenada Chocolate Company.
In 2017, Aaron started to produce samples of chocolate, which were shared with my friends and work colleagues, and in 2018 showcased the brand at the Grenada Chocolate Festival. Following on from the showcase, chocolate bars were then produced, and the launch of a selection of experiences from Tri- Island Chocolate incorporating their popular sunset cruise and Rastafarian Roots-To-Bar experience rolled out early 2019 to compliment their range of chocolate bars.
The goal of Tri-Island Chocolate has been to showcase the multitude of ways in which Grenadian cocoa and its chocolate can be used to make multiple products and experiences, with the intent to encourage young Grenadians and those with cocoa land to maintain that land, to use the cocoa and continuing to grow trees for the future generations of Grenada and the Caribbean.