Ritual Chocolate Juniper Lavender 70%

You’ve never really tasted American craft chocolate if you’ve never tried Ritual. The patterns of a Ritual bar are such eye candy to give brain tingles. The combined tactile and visual sensation by following the joints from which the outer packaging gets unfolded and the bar extracted from the inner wrapper and held between the […]

Mānoa Chocolate Esmeraldas Ecuador 85%

If I had to call only one nation representing absolute pride for its cacao producing tradition in the world of fine chocolate, that would undoubtedly be Ecuador. The reason for this ardor is a desire for redemption from the traumatic event of the witches’ broom disease in the 1920s, when most of the original Nacional […]

No, ‘Smoky’ Is Not A Flavor Attribute In Fine Chocolate

As I was mulling over my last tasting, which included a single-origin Papua New Guinea dark chocolate bar, I was torn about whether or not to publish my next fine chocolate review. For being so unapologetically smoky—so much that I couldn’t perceive any other flavors—posting on that product wouldn’t have honored the scope of my […]

Luisa Abram Caramelized White Chocolate

It may be hot sub-Saharan weather here in Italy during these last days of June buy cheap kamagra online , but nothing prevented me from indulging in white chocolate among the remnants still in the stash after the winter shopping. Especially if the packaging with marine colors and elements lovely turned out a refreshing effect […]

Heinde & Verre Balmy Brazil Milk Chocolate 62%

If someone asked me for which type of chocolate a mainstream brand with a pretension of “specialty” could not compete with a truly fine one, I would undoubtedly reply, ‘dark milk.’ From a strictly technical point of view, the lactose (a type of sugar different from the sucrose obtained from cane or beet) in the […]

Chocolat Madagascar Fine White Gold Chocolate 45%

It makes no sense trying to validate the nature of white chocolate when it really has its goodness and diversity, so to regularly consider it among the various fine chocolate tastings. This Chocolat Madagascar Fine White Gold Chocolate 45% couldn’t miss becoming an experience. Produced from 45% naturally-pressed cocoa butter from Grand Cru Sambirano cacao […]

Beyond Good by Madécasse Pure Dark Heirloom Chocolate

Time seems to have flown away in the past three months since the start of the COVID-19 emergency. The exceptionally chilly weekend of late May in my southern Italian region gently invited me to the pastel pinkish colors of these Beyond Good by Madécasse chocolate bars. While Madagascar seems to be a relatively well-known and […]

Mānoa Dark Goat Milk Chocolate 69%

Devastated by a few disappointing tastings, directing my choice toward this Mānoa Dark Goat Milk Chocolate 69% couldn’t represent better recovery to make up for the joys of fine chocolate temporarily lost. Mānoa Chocolate is one of those fine chocolate names who do know how to do what they do before releasing a specific product, […]

Dutch Heinde & Verre Is Building Momentum In The Fine Chocolate Space

While not personally attending the last edition of the Chocoa Festival in Amsterdam held last February—falling in the pre-coronavirus outbreak—one of the speakers presenting at the ‘Chocolate Makers Forum’ seemed to raise public interest for its philosophy in approaching chocolate. Ewald Rietberg, an oenologist, founded in 2018 with his longtime friend Jan-Willem Jekel, a pastry […]

Macadamia Nuts Have Potential To Uplift Fine Chocolate Products

As chocolate holds a cherished place in people’s lives, transcending age, gender, or geography, its tasting experience represents a comforting reward, soothing the hardships of everyday life. According to recent research commissioned by Australian Macadamias and led by independent consumer insights agency GALKAL on a group of Western and Asian consumers, macadamias are well-positioned to […]