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Valrhona – Gran Couva 2010 – Review – Martin

Gran Couva was the first single plantation/origin chocolate of the modern era, starting a trend that has blossomed and grown into the whole world of specialist origin chocolate. When other bars joined the range though – f...
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Valrhona - Gran Couva 2010

Valrhona – Gran Couva 2010

The original plantation cacao bar, from a source first suggested to Valrhona by Robert Linxe of La Maison du Chocolat. Also the first bar to really be marketed by its year of production or ‘vintage’. (Though laying ...
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Willie’s Delectable Cacao – Indonesian 69 – Review

Light coloured as you expect from Indonesian cacao, though nothing nearly as ‘milky’ as something like Domori’s Javablonde’ achieves. Willie’s style is thick and rustic, giving us more of a thick ...
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Willie’s Delectable Cacao – Indonesian 69

Perhaps the most exotic of Willie Harcourt-Cooze’s eating bar range, and furthest from his original Venezuelan roots. ‘Indonesian 69′ turns out to be one of the most successful of his bars though, providing in...
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New review home page

Welcome to our new review home page! Last year, we finally completed moving our reviews – which go back to 2002 – to our new WordPress based database. That was quite an exercise though, and we ran out of time when i...
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Damian Allsop ‘The Pure Collection’

A new 'pure' collection from master of the water-based ganache - London chocolatier Damian Allsop. Featuring only country and plantation origin chocolate from Valrhona, taking chocolate appreciation to another level.
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