Monthly Archives: January 2012

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January 31, 2012

Seventy Percent Chocolate Flavours Monthly Flavour Journeys

I know from chatting with people that some would love to know more about chocolate and chocolate tasting but it isn’t easy to find places to learn.  Tasting anything professionally takes training and most just want to understand chocolate better. Seventy ...

January 30, 2012

Were Rude Health & Demarquette Robbed of Their Joint Award?

In the world of judging, there is always controversy. As a judge myself, my decisions have constantly been called into question. Whether it is for chocolate (taste is a very personal thing and as it is with wine, each person ...

January 28, 2012

My Visit to Matcha Chocolat & Sneak Peek at New Chocolates

I live not too far from some of the most beautiful locations. Where I live isn’t so great but everywhere else is, and that is true of the Matcha Chocolat production kitchen. The production kitchen at Matcha is set within ...

January 27, 2012

Haagen Dazs Sweet Sensations Ice Cream Review

I was lucky enough to be part of the Haagen Dazs tasting club. Not only does this mean I can pop in to the Leicester Square location and get the VIP treatment (one free ice cream per day) but it ...

January 26, 2012

Mast Brothers Crown Maple Review

Mast Brothers in Brooklyn New York are one of a few new craft or artisan chocolate makers who are emerging in the US and trying to help pull the US palette out from the Hershey’s gutter to new heights of ...

January 25, 2012

Hotel Chocolat Rabot Estate 66% Review

[updated with corrected information] The Rabot Estate that Hotel Chocolate runs is a chocolate success story.  Taking trees of varying strains and creating a new one, Hotel Chocolat have really tried hard to not only create excellence in mass market ...

January 24, 2012

Melt Wild Bolivian Bar 68% Review

This 68% Bolivian cacao bar is a bit of a conundrum to me. It is interesting to me that both this and the Felchlin cacao is 68% and I don’t know that Melt is a bean to bar company.  I ...

January 23, 2012

Madecasse Madagascar 75% Review

I stumbled across Madecasse, I think, in SF. I believe I picked it up at Fog City News though it could have been Cocoa Bella as I bought hundreds of dollars in bars from both and can’t remember what I ...

January 22, 2012

A Visit to BlueBasil Brownies

It was a frosty day when I went to BlueBasil Brownies. The whole world had been turned a beautiful pristine white. It was like something off a Christmas card. The whole world was covered in a beautiful frost. The farm ...

January 21, 2012

Amelia Rope Dark Chocolate with Whole Coffee Beans Review

This is the second of the Amelia Rope chocolate bars that I received from the woman herself and this time it was a strongly flavoured bar.  I, of course, had no idea how strongly flavoured until I bit into it ...

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