Category: Great Chocolate

Great chocolate – not as good as high quality, but better than most

July 25, 2011

Rococo Sea Salt Milk Chocolate Bar Review

I received a set of 5 chocolate bars from Rococo. They included lavender in the mix and a geranium and orange. I was a bit surprised as I thought the 2 florals might overpower the other bars but I also ...

July 19, 2011

Niko B Organic Chocolates and Aleksic & Mortimer Wine and Chocolate Pairings

I found myself somewhere I don’t often find myself for this event – off-piste having only a London Overground train to take me to Dalston Junction. The Hackney locals were thrilled by the location but being outside my comfort ...

July 18, 2011

Gorvett and Stone Eton Mess Chocolates Review

It’s no longer Easter but I got these close to Easter and tried them then, when I was trying a ton of other chocolate. I’m not sure but I may have slightly chocolate myself out back then but these ...

July 15, 2011

Lick the Spoon Sea Salt & Butterscotch Dark Chocolate Bar Review

Putting sea salt into sweet things like caramel and milk chocolate has become extremely fashionable of late and despite that it is almost always done well. When I was sent my pack of Lick the Spoon goodies, it was ...

July 14, 2011

Lick the Spoon Green Tea Chocolate Bar Review

Before I visited Japan, green tea tome was something that tasted not unlike seaweed. In fact, there was a time in my life when I thought green tea *was* seaweed. That, of course, is nothing like the laughs ...

July 12, 2011

Scharffen Berger Extra Dark 82% Chocolate Bar Review

Extra dark can seem a bit scary. Firstly, a lot of us are afraid of the dark with good reason. There is a lot that can happen in the dark that you can’t see, and what you can’t ...

July 11, 2011

Scharffen Berger Bittersweet 70% Chocolate Bar Review

Something is bittersweet when bad new and good news are mixed together. When my grandmother passed she had been living a terrible existence for four months and so her passing was both extremely sad for me and yet it ...

July 8, 2011

Scharffen Berger SemiSweet 62% Chocolate Bar Review

There’s something about dark chocolate that makes people think it is awful and bitter. I’m not sure why but perhaps that awful stuff which used to be the only thing available 20 or so years ago is what made ...

July 7, 2011

Scharffen Berger Extra Rich Milk Chocolate Bar Review

It was a day in San Francisco I won’t soon forget. Hot on the heels of judging chocolate I had flown thousands of miles to the US and was trying chocolate there. I remember the look on the ...

June 30, 2011

Thorntons Academy of Chocolate Gold Award Winners

A master chocolatier is crowned in the UK by the Academy of Chocolate based on the number of gold award winning chocolates they produce. As a judge I have tried the best and worst that 2011 had to offer ...

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