OUR STORY
Warm your heart, nourish your soul
When you lift a cup of Suzie June to your lips, you can’t help but smile. The experience is joyous, nurturing and comes from a place of love.
Suzie June was born from a passion for excellence. Our purpose is to deliver you the highest quality, finest-tasting drinking chocolate with every sip.
Warm and velvety, Suzie June leaves a sweet, lingering flavour with every breath. She’s soul nourishing and morish. Offering an excuse for more time, more connection, more love.
Whether Suzie June is your self-care ritual, or enjoyed with family and friends, she’s all about taking time out and savouring the sweet things in life.
How it all began
Suzie June is our family-run business in the heart of the Sunshine Coast hinterland. You can’t help but smile when you say the name ‘Suzie June’ and that was certainly our intention. We wanted Suzie June to bring joy to people in any setting, at home or at their favourite café.
Suzie June was conceived in 2014 at our Sunshine Coast Hinterland café. When we were sourcing the best products for our café we found commercial hot chocolate blends distinctly lacking in flavour. They were either packed full of milk powder filler, thickeners, or were simply cocoa and sugar and had no gusto.
Rich, a fine dining chef for over 20 years, used his extensive food research and development skills to create a taste sensation for our customers, sourcing the highest quality ingredients he could find. Belgium couverture chocolate; Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa from West Africa; Queensland raw sugar and flake salt from Victoria. Resulting in a naturally delicious and dairy-free hot chocolate blend free from fillers.
Together, Rich and I then experimented with infusing the raw sugar with premium food grade essential oils to create flavoured blends. We surprised our café customers with these new tastes, they thought they were amazing! To our delight, they wanted to buy them to take home. This was our ‘ah ha’ moment, and we made the decision to sell our café and focus on bringing the joy of Suzie June to more people.
So, what’s the secret to Suzie June’s success? We believe it’s our passion for creating a memorable customer experience, using only the best available ingredients and a heartfelt love of what we do.
We believe our Suzie June chocolate, chai and turmeric blends are the best you can get, it’s why our cherished customers keep coming back to enjoy the flavours.
We would love to welcome you into the Suzie June family, to be enjoyed in your home or to share with your customers who deserve the very best.
With warmth & love
Rich & Hannah