Category: Great Chocolate

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

Purist 50% dash of milk 35g Chocolate Bar With Caramel

It’s hard to assess a chocolate bar from Hotel Chocolat. I know where they are in my own head but putting it into writing is harder. I love Hotel Chocolat’s range of mini Purist chocolate bars and wish I had taken ...

Hotel Chocolat Purist 90% Dark Extreme Caramels

I first tried these caramels at the Hotel Chocolat event I attended and boy were they different. The 90% seemed an unlikely candidate for a sweet caramel filling although the Ecuadorian chocolate should have been a fruity counterpoint I ...

Macallan Whisky and Artsan du Chocolat Whisky and Chocolate Pairing Event

A little while ago I went to a whisky and chocolate pairing. I’m not a big whisky drinker as I always saw it as a very unfeminine, masculine drink. The few tastings I have been to including the ...

World Demarquette Pure Blend 65%

I bought this chocolate bar some time ago and finally got around to trying it out. The flavour is delicate and pleasant and not at all too earthy or leathery.  It was slightly flat in my mouth but it was still ...

Artisan du Chocolat Tasting box

I got these lovely chocolates because it gave me a little bit of everything to try.  The box contained several chocolates all of very different flavours and they seemed almost perfectly chosen for me.  The box was delightful wrapped in ...

Rococo Rose Chocolate Bar

A dark chocolate bee bar that has a Turkish Delight flavour of rose.  It makes it not too floral and quite pleasant.  It’s like Turkish Delight without the chewy gooey bits. The dark chocolate doesn’t stand out on its own and ...

Valrhona Initiation Grands Crus

This lovely tasting box is intended to introduce you to the flavour of different chocolates and help you taste the difference between different kinds of chocolate. Each chocolate square is a different chocolate from Manjari to Abinao each chocolate has a ...

Paul Wayne Gregory Popping Caramel Chocolate Pop

When I met and interviewed Paul Wayne Gregory, I was gifted with a triad of his new popping candy, chocolate and sea salted caramel pops.  These were kindly gifted to me after a discussion about the sea salt caramel in ...

Xococava Chocolate in Toronto

Born on the 1st of July 2008, Xococava is one of the newer chocolate shops to hit Toronto.  Located in Deslie Court just north of the St Clair subway station, this ideally located chocolate shop brings some of the most ...

la maison du chocolat summer collection

La Maison Du Chocolat – Garrigue Collection – Summer 2010

This small box of chocolates which you can pick up for £12 arrived at my home in a giant box.  Delving in to the bubble wrap was fun, but not as much fun as the chocolates themselves were. There were 2 ...

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