Second race of the season and the big question is how the new Pirelli tyres will perform in hot temperatures – from the cool of Melbourne to the extreme of Kuala Lumpur, one of the hottest tracks of the season. Heat is no...
New for 2011, a reincarnation of Valrhona’s earlier gift-box only Pedregal offering. Porcelana – a Venezuelan white-beaned criollo variety – is often considered to be the ‘champagne’ of cacao varie...
A super-strong, extremely characteristic chocolate, archetypal of its cacao varietal. It brings out all the intensity and complex character of the Chuao bean in a way that can only be described as sublime – both overwhelm...
Warm up the winter chill with The Chocolate Festival at the Southbank Centre, London, 11-13 Dec 2009. Join Seventypercent.com on Sat 12th for our talk and take our 'Taste test' in the Royal Festival Hall
Bright, fresh, sunny – all of these are an apt description of Mangaro, Cluizel’s interpretation of the fashionable Madagascar cacao. This bar is for those who like their chocolate light – like a Northern Itali...
Is this bar truly “wild” cacao as the manufacturer claims? Perhaps not, but it’s credibly close – and about as close, probably, to a wild chocolate as we’re likely to experience. If Porcelana is sa...