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Pacari – Piura 70%

Probably the purest Piura yet. While undoubtedly a fine bar, it still doesn’t really “wow”. Instead, it brings very unusual flavours that make it more of an interesting bar than a great bar. It’s probabl...
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Red Star – Ocumare 55%

The best milk chocolate that has ever been produced. Nothing can approach the complete mastery by which Red Star has created the definitive interpretation of a classic bean in a milk format. Here is a bar that shows both flavou...
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Red Star – Ocumare 55%

Boldly introducing what other chocolate manufacturers seem to have shied away from, Red Star provides a truly elite-bean milk chocolate, and at gratifyingly high percentage. This is likely to mean extreme expectations, so the p...
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Menakao – Dark Chocolate 72%

While a reasonable effort from a young manufacturer, this bar demonstrates a certain lack of sophistication that shows that local production in Madagascar still has a long way to go if it would compete with the Cluizels and Pra...
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Menakao – Dark Chocolate 72%

Madagascar keeps on throwing up local chocolate manufacturers…with a reputation for inconsistency. Here we go with another one whose long-term results will have to be tested in time but who show that the Madagascans are d...
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Pralus – Cuyagua

One of Pralus’ more interesting bars, a source not often seen, and which in this case seems to play to Pralus’ strengths reasonably well. Pralus’ own blurb on the box strangely rather diminishes it by too much...
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