The Sweet Life: Volo Chocolate
by Rose Fuchs
December 14, 2022
Sonoma County got a bit sweeter in 2016, when Susan and Jeff Mall started their Windsor-based company Volo Chocolate.
While working as co-chefs in a boutique hotel in Baja Sur, Mexico, Susan and Jeff discovered some cacao in the restaurant’s kitchen left by the previous chef.
“That got us to thinking, ‘I wonder how hard it is to make chocolate?’” Together with the help of their restaurant coworkers, many of whom had families that made traditional chocolate, they began making their own. After 18 months abroad, the two returned to Sonoma County and opened their business.
