Buying chocolate should be an experience; an indulgence; the ultimate in taste bud temptation. The Moniaive Chocolatiers offer a combination of all three, built on innovation, fairly traded organic ingredients and unique Scottish artisanship.

Innovation and Scotland, of course, go hand in hand so it is hardly surprising a small operation in a picture postcard village deep in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway in the rural south west should come up with a world first.