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Vosges Gingerbread Toffee Bar

Jan 17, 12

Posted by Edmund in Chocolate, Featured Articles, Gourmet Chocolate Bars, USA

Composition: Gingerbread Spiced Toffee, 65% Dark Chocolate. Region of Production: USA. Price: $7.50 from Vosges’s site. Aesthetically, this bar generally impresses. As with all of Vosges’s bars, it is completely smooth, seamlessly integrating the ingredient. There are some signs of chocolate bloom (discoloration) across the...

Vosges Blood Orange Caramel Bar

Jan 17, 12

Posted by Edmund in Chocolate, Featured Articles, Gourmet Chocolate Bars, USA

Composition: Hibiscus Flowers, Blood Orange Caramel, Campari, 70% Dark Chocolate Region of Production: USA. Price: $7.50 from Vosges’ site. This bar looks very clean, with its sleek, intense black color. As always, the packaging too impresses, though this one even more so than usual with its wild display of blood oranges. My bar...

Vosges Black Salt Caramel Bar

Jan 17, 12

Posted by Edmund in Chocolate, Gourmet Chocolate Bars, USA

Composition: Black Hawaiian Sea Salt, Burnt Sugar Caramel, 70% Dark Chocolate. Region of Production: USA. Price: $7.50 from Vosges’ site. Since this bar was shipped from the Vosges store itself, it hasn’t suffered from any storage or transportation issues. It is clean, polished, and completely smooth to the touch. I also...

Amedei Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts Bar

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Amedei White Chocolate with Pistachio Bar

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Amedei Porcelana

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Amedei “9″

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Lake Champlain 5 Star Fruit and Nut

Dec 25, 11

Posted by Edmund in Chocolate, Featured Articles, Gourmet Chocolate Bars, USA

Composition: Praline, Pecans, Cherries, and Dark Chocolate. Region of Production: USA. Price: $3.80 for 1.9 oz. bar (53 g). Presentation-wise, this bar keeps it simple and clean. It comes in a tiny wrapper with no images or fancy colors. Underneath the wrapper lies an equally simple bar, bearing no designs whatsoever. The bar, in...

Fauchon Gout N. 3 Lait Caramel

Jul 31, 11

Posted by Edmund in Chocolate, Featured Articles, France, Gourmet Chocolate Bars

Region of Production: France. Composition: 33% Milk Chocolate with Caramel. Price: About $6.50 for 75g. This is my first take at the legendary Fauchon’s chocolate, and the brand lives up to its name, with a bar that is just so right in so many way. The Gout n. 3 Lait Caramel bar comes literally shimmering with a near caramel-like...

LA Burdick Milk with Hazelnuts

Jul 25, 11

Posted by Edmund in Chocolate, Featured Articles, Gourmet Chocolate Bars, USA

Composition: 40-42% Milk Chocolate, Hazelnuts. Region of Production: USA. Price: 100g for about $7. The presentation here is exactly what I’d expect from LA Burdick: clean, professional, and homey, all in one. As I’ve noted before, Burdick does “old-fashioned” better than just about anyone else. The packaging is a very...