Category: Top Notch Chocolate

High quality chocolate

matcha valentines selection

Matcha Chocolat Valentines Selection & Win A Box! [CLOSED]

That’s right – I’ve teased you with my reviews of it and now it’s here for you to order in time for delivery on Valentines day.  This delightful selection must be the best yet from Matcha Chocolat, combining Japanese inspired ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASKINOSIE Cortes Honduras

ASKINOSIE Cortes Honduras Review

Creating a bar from beans is no mean feat. There is the sourcing and the checking and the process of elimination and then monitoring growing conditions and staff conditions and ensuring everyone is being paid properly and that children aren’t ...

Lahloo Tea Collection Chocolates by Damian Allsop & Win A Box!

This collection combines Lahloo teas with either a chocolate flavour or into a ganache to enjoy in the chocolate.  Some teas like orchid and Darjeeling didn’t make the cut and instead have been paired with other chocolates. Some like jasmine ...

The Pure Collection by Damian Allsop Review

This pure collection from Damian Allsop is a move in the right direction. As more and more people become aware of how delightful chocolate can be when made correctly by bean to bar manufacturers, Damian Allsop has taken it a ...

Soma Twilight Forest Bark Review

Limited edition dark Peruvian chocolate with a twinkle of Maldon sea salt and pumpkin seeds roasted with wildflower honey from Rosewood estates. Ya... you read that right and it is mine, not yours. There’s no sharing with this small bag of ...

askinosie hazelnut chocolate spread

Askinosie Hazelnut Chocolate Spread

For a long time I thought that Pierre Marcolini had made the ultimate chocolate spread. It was like pudding in a jar for spreading on a rice cake or toast. It was glorious. But then my head was turned by ...

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