Three years ago, Jane and Wally Delia sold their business, Vermont Chocolatiers, to the owners of the Route 4 Country Store in Quechee and branched out in other directions.

Their hiatus didn’t last long. “We just kind of missed it,” Jane Delia says. “It’s a fun, creative business.”

So the Plainfield couple has signed a lease on a storefront at 40 State Street in Montpelier, where they will open the Cocoa Bean, a chocolate shop, later this month. Jane Delia says she will make all the chocolate — truffles, barks, clusters and turtles, among others — on site.

Expect some creative truffle flavors, she says, including toasted coconut, honey cognac and maple cayenne.

This article appears in Sep 5-11, 2012.

Corin Hirsch was a Seven Days food writer 2011 through 2016. She was also a dining critic and drinks columnist at Newsday from 2017 to 2022, and contributes to The Guardian, Wine Enthusiast and other publications. She’s spoken often on colonial era drinking and is the author of Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England, published by History Press in 2014.