Us & Our Mission
Chocolate in a Bottle was not born overnight, it took a lot of efforts, very hard work and strong commitment to become what it is today.
I started my path in the catering school of Ter Duinen in Koksijde, Belgium, where I specialized in Hotel Management and sommelier. I pride myself on having worked in the most prestigious Michelin stars restaurants in Belgium, with a year in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, south of France, five years in Sankt-Morritz, Switzerland, and made my way back to Belgium as a General Manager of a hotel near the city of Antwerp. I dedicated nine years of my life to the hotel industry and in return I acquired not only experience but languages and a small network that I was determined to use to my advantage. Why work 15 hours a day for somebody else when I could work 20 hours a day for myself? With this goal in mind and a lot of determination, I started presenting Belgian specialties all over the world, some with success and others without. It was during a stay in Oman, where I arrived with 40 kg of Chocolate pralines that I discovered, upon opening my luggage, that chocolate and heat do not go together. But during that same visit I was conveyed to taste alcohol free wine, which I did not like at all, but that came to me as a revelation.
Claudia Tosato, Co-owner and life partner
What if I could combine a sublime alcohol free blanc de blancs with the most exquisite chocolate taste? The idea of Chocolate in a Bottle was thus born.
After innumerable testing and tasting we found a way to combine the exquisite grape with the famous taste of chocolate. The takeoff was not going to be easy, I rolled up my sleeves once again and thanks to the excellent support of Flanders Investment and Trade, bottle orders became boxes, boxes became pallets and pallets became containers. In 2017 I met the woman of my life; she immediately believed in me and in Chocolate in a Bottle and together we continued to grow this project as if it were our child. Our vision is to give the consumer a one-of-a-kind experience, a taste of something that is utterly unique, innovative and gracious to the palate. Today, we can say with all due humility and pride that we are present in a lot of countries and growing.