Napa Valley Fudge is carefully handmade with the finest ingredients, producing a fudge that is truly a delight to the senses.
Forty five years spent perfecting our recipe allows us to bring you a deliciously rich fudge balanced with just the right amounts of sweetness and chocolate flavor. Firm yet creamy, each bite melts in your mouth.
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Our Story
Gary Ponder started making fudge as a 10-year-old with a serious sweet tooth. For years Gary made fudge for his family and everyone looked forward to it. But to Gary, he hadn’t reached fudge perfection yet. Using the recipe his mother had given him, he tried all sorts of variations.
“I sampled fudge every where we went. Even though I liked to eat it and it satisfied my sweet tooth, it never seemed to be exactly what I was searching for.”
As an adult, Gary became a chemical engineer. Fudge-making took a back seat to his grown-up career, but everyone knew that he still liked fudge. A contractor that he did business with gave him two 10-pound bars of chocolate as a gag gift, one dark chocolate and one milk chocolate. It sat on the shelf for a while and to avoid throwing the rest away, I made some fudge. I was hooked again. My daughter Lauren and wife Beth were enthusiastic partners, so together we began our quest for the perfect fudge.”
After three years of trial and error, Gary reached the right combination of chocolates, the right process, and consistent results. The two things that mattered most to Gary were flavor and texture. Speaking like the scientist he is, he says, “Fudge is a super-saturated solution. It’s very difficult to keep the ‘grain size’ below the detection limit for the palate.” What he means is that the key is the creaminess.
In late 2005, Napa Valley Fudge Company was started as a family business with Beth and Lauren taking on the administration and marketing, while Gary made the fudge.
