Hotel Chocolat 100% Buena Vista Bar

Composition: 100% Dark Chocolate. Region of Production: USA. Origin of Cocoa: Dominican Republic. Price: 35g for $5-$5.50, or 70g for $9-$10. Surprisingly, the bar breaks off into pieces that are completely smooth, even though it doesn’t come with any designs that separate it into convenient squares or rectangles. Instead, the...

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Hotel Chocolat Vanilla White Chocolate

Composition: 28-31% Vanilla White Chocolate with Vanilla Seeds. Region of Production: USA. Price: 100g for $7. This bar has a lot to love, but also a lot to hate. First, take the presentation. The packaging is a simple plastic wrapper, showing off the bar’s design. The plastic, though, is nearly vacuum packed and has a gigantic...

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Hotel Chocolat 70% Chuao Bar

Composition: 70% Single-Origin Dark Chocolate. Region of Production: England. Region of Origin: Venezuela. Price: $5-$5.50 for 35g. $9-$10 for 70g. Whenever I see any bar made with the legendary Chuao bean, the rarest of cocoa, I immediately rush for it, knowing that it’s going to be an exquisite. I may have found the exception,...

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The Grenada Chocolate Company 71% Dark Chocolate

Composition: 71% Organic Dark Chocolate. Region of Origin and Production: Caribbean. The company itself is British.  Price: About $4-4.50 for a 3 oz./85g bar. As a full disclosure, this is a chocolate that was nearing its best-to-eat-by date, and it had just a slight bit of wear on it in one corner, with the cocoa rubbed off....

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Grenada Chocolate Company 60% Dark Bar

Composition: 60% Dark Chocolate. Price: About $4-$5 for a 3 oz./85g bar. Organic Dark Chocolate. The presentation of this bar is lovely, though simple. It comes wrapped in a colorful packet depicting a rainbow of cocoa pods , hanging from a tree in the forest and surrounded by vines and leaves. The Grenada Chocolate Company gives...

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Divine White Chocolate with Strawberries

Producer: Divine Chocolate. Region of Production: United Kingdom. Price: About $4-$5 for 100g. The wrapper is cheap but artistic, overloaded with a swirling design of multifarious colors. As for the bar, it’s polka-dotted all over with dehydrated strawberries. While the bar is smooth to the touch (i.e. strawberries don’t jut...

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