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Red Star Chocolate – Nicaragua Chuno

Red Star introduces what is to be hoped is an alternative interpretation of the same source bean so ably transformed by Friis-Holm. Based on the boldness of the Friis-Holm version, we may expect this to be a good fit to the Red...
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Domori- Hacienda San Jose Chuao

Domori – Chuao Hacienda San Jose

Domori’s long-awaited “Chuao” finally appears. Can a chocolate produced outside of Chuao village legitimately be called Chuao? Common sense would seem to say no, but without a doubt, Domori has succeeded in ca...
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Domori – Puertomar – review – Alex Rast

A delightful change in a strong dark chocolate. It doesn’t knock you back in your seat with power, but rather transports you to a beautiful tropical isle. Very relaxing and mellow, yet with an unusual complexity of differ...
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Guittard – Waialua Estate – review – Alex Rast

Like L’Harmonie, Guittard (in cooperation with Dole) packages the bars in rather awkward 10 g rectangles, 5 to a box. Not the easiest format, but the chocolate itself looks very nice, light brown and with no trace of moul...
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Theo Chocolate – Dominican Republic 84%

The Dominican Republic is particularly well-known for producing organic chocolate, often with spectacular results, (e.g. Domori’s old Chacao, or more recently Sainsbury’s Organic 70%), but with the occasional specta...
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Domori – Puertofino – review – Alex Rast

You can summarise this chocolate with a single word : BOLD. While perhaps in truth an oversimplification, boldness is nonetheless the keynote of this chocolate and affects the decisions made with it. Here is a chocolate to wake...
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