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...
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Composition: 75% Dark Chocolate. Origin of Cocoa: Venezuela. Bean Type: Chuao. Region of Production: France. Price: About $8 for 100g. Everything about this bar speaks to its quality. First, the bar comes in traditional Bonnat style, crafted into squares that snap off perfectly, with clean lines. This bar, though, goes a step...
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Region of Production: France. Composition: 65% Milk Chocolate. Origin of Cocoa: Sumatra. Price: About $8 for 100g. The presentation is quite nice. Normally, I’m not a fan of paper wrappers, especially for bars on the higher end of the price spectrum, but Bonnat’s is actually tasteful, displaying a nice French chateau, some...
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Les Chocolats Yves Thuriés, Chocolat Noir aux Éclats de Violette. Composition: 70% Dark Chocolate with Crystallized Violet. Region of Production: France. Price: $6-$7 for 80g. First off, the presentation of this bar is quite nice, at least on the surface. It really tries to embody the idea of violets, emphasizing the ingredient...
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Composition: 65% Single-Origin Dark Chocolate Country of Production: France. Price: $8 for 100g. Note: I was trying the 30g variety, so I’ll make this into more of a mini-review. I just didn’t eat enough to evaluate it perfectly. The small piece I was trying comes in a nice, simple paper wrapper, nor is the actual chocolate...
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Composition: 67% Dark Chocolate Bar. Region of Production: France. Price: About $6-$7 for 100g. Upon opening the Hacienda Los Ancones Bar, I wasn’t very pleased at all. The packaging, as with all of Cluizel’s bars, is very nice, but the wrapper itself was for some reason already opened on the inside. Someone had either opened...
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Composition: 75% Dark Chocolate Bar. Country of Production: France. Price: About $8-$9 for a bar. Producer’s Notes: Powerful and heady nose, aromas of burnt butter and liquorice, bitter, persistent on the palate. Unfortunately, this bar is discolored, as most of my latest bars have been. It must be a result of improper...
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Pralus “Le 100%” Bar. 100% Pure Chocolate Bar. About $8-$9 for 100g. I’ve tried chocolates from all over the world, of all different styles and intensities. Never, however, have I had the chance to taste pure chocolate. And there’s a good reason for that: Pure cocoa is unbearably bitter. And yet, Pralus has quite daringly...
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Pralus 75% Cuba Bar. 75% Dark Chocolate Bar. About $8-$9 for 100g. As all of Pralus’s bars, the Pralus Cuba Bar comes in a simple, but tasteful, paper wrapper that displays much more information than you’d typically find on a chocolate bar. Not only does it show you the type of cocoa and its country of origin, it maps the...
read moreValrhona Manjari 64% Dark Chocolate Bar Beans from Madagascar Bar articulated in France About $6 Valrhona’s Description of the Bar: Fresh and tangy. The presentation of the bar is very simple, clean, and professional. Black wrapping, black box, chocolate in the shape of a large, thin square. It’s the same as the other Valrhona...
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