A warm lamp and a mug at the end of the day
Small-batch drinking chocolate

Hot chocolate for the end of the day.

Rich, small-batch drinking chocolate for the moment the world stops asking things of you.

Three Evenings
The easiest place to start

Three evenings. One pouch each.

Single-serve pouches of Heritage, Salted Caramel and Mexican Spiced. Empty one into your mug, add hot water, then hot milk. Nothing to measure, no jar to keep.

£6.50

Three pouches · one mug each

Free UK delivery
Fits through the letterbox
One mug per pouch
The Signature Trio of drinking chocolate pouches
The considered set

Three blends. One calm evening decision.

A considered introduction to The Gentle Mug. Heritage, Mexican Spiced and Salted Caramel, chosen to show three distinct ways to close the evening.

£25.00· £28.47 bought separately

About £1.04 a mug

Rated 4.9 out of 5 by cocoa lovers

Made in the UK
8 mugs per pouch
Honest ingredients
Free UK delivery on the Trio

Four ways to end the day well.

Real cocoa, honest ingredients and four distinct ways to close the day.

Heritage Drinking Chocolate by The Gentle MugThe timeless one

Heritage

Creamy, mellow, classic.

Classic evening comfort.

Enjoy hot or iced.

£9.498 servings · 60% cocoa · small batch blended

About £1.19 a mug

Mexican Spiced Drinking Chocolate by The Gentle MugThe warming one

Mexican Spiced

Warm, spiced, gently bold.

Warm spice for slower evenings.

Enjoy hot or iced.

£9.498 servings · warming spice · plant based

About £1.19 a mug

SaltedCaramelDrinkingChocolatebyTheGentleMugThe indulgent one

Salted Caramel

Smooth, rich, balanced.

The midweek reward.

Enjoy hot or iced.

£9.498 servings · caramel warmth · plant based

About £1.19 a mug

Japanese Matcha Drinking Chocolate by The Gentle MugThe distinctive one

Japanese Matcha

Earthy, green, softly distinctive.

Finely ground Uji matcha.

Enjoy hot or iced.

£10.498 servings · matcha cocoa · plant based

About £1.31 a mug

Christmas gifting

A gift for the end of their day.

Small-batch drinking chocolate, made in Horsham. Order by 18 December for delivery before Christmas.

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The Signature Trio

£25

Three full pouches, twenty-four mugs. The easiest gift to get right.

Shop the Trio

For teams and clients

Gift boxes and workplace packs, invoiced and delivered in bulk.

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In their words

What people say after the first cup.

Rated 4.9 out of 5 by cocoa lovers

★★★★★
The Heritage Hot Chocolate has a perfectly balanced sweetness: rich, and smooth.
Amy FHeritage review
★★★★★
My new afternoon treat, love the fresh flavour, absolutely delicious hot or over ice. So glad I tried it.
Felicity SJapanese Matcha review
★★★★★
Lovely balanced taste. Absolutely loved it!
Ighi ISalted Caramel review
Ingredient honesty

Cocoa first, not sugar.

Most instant hot chocolate is sugar with some cocoa in it. Ours is the other way round.

What often appears in instant hot chocolate

12 ingredients, heaviest first

  • Whey permeate
  • Sugar
  • Fat reduced cocoa powder (10%)
  • Coconut oil
  • Glucose syrup
  • Milk chocolate (3%)
  • Flavourings
  • Stabilisers
  • Anti-caking agent
  • Salt
  • Emulsifier
  • Sweetener

On some big-brand labels, cocoa is 10 to 15% of the pack. The rest is sugar, syrup and fillers.

The Gentle Mug ingredients

A selection of the natural ingredients used across The Gentle Mug range.

The Gentle Mug

Our standard

Ingredients vary by blend, but the principle stays the same: proper cocoa, recognisable ingredients, and nothing added for the sake of it.

  • Proper cocoa
  • Recognisable ingredients
  • Nothing added for the sake of it
After the last cup of tea

For the evenings when tea is not quite enough.

Tea is the easy answer at nine o'clock. Some evenings you want something with more to it.

A late cup of tea
The Gentle Mug
A late cup of tea

Finished in five minutes

The Gentle Mug

Slow enough to sit with

A late cup of tea

The same as every other cup

The Gentle Mug

Three flavours, three moods

A late cup of tea

Thin, then cold

The Gentle Mug

Rich, deep and balanced

A late cup of tea

A habit

The Gentle Mug

Something you chose

I wanted a drinking chocolate I could trust to share with my family. So I made my own.

Emmanuel, Founder

The Signature Trio

Ready for all three?

Heritage, Salted Caramel and Mexican Spiced in full pouches. Twenty-four mugs, with free UK delivery.