- The Chocolate Tree – Ecuador 82% Alex Rast, 14 Dec 2012
- Friis-Holm – Chuno Double Turned Alex Rast, 3 Dec 2012
- Friis-Holm – Chuno Triple Turned Alex Rast, 18 Nov 2012
- Chapon – Chuao Alex Rast, 18 Nov 2012
- Red Star Chocolate – Ocumare 72% Alex Rast, 17 Oct 2012
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Directly Traded collection from Geert Vercruysse
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Chocolates made in Nicaragua
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‘I always find good food, even in the most improbable places’
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International Chocolate Awards
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Chocolate makers of the Lower Rhone
Directly Traded collection from Geert Vercruysse
Belgian chocolatier Geert Vercruysse creates a unique collection of ganaches using directly traded chocolate, just in time for the birth of new industry organisation, Direct Cacao.
Chocolates made in Nicaragua
Carlos Mann, founder of Momotombo Chocolate, shares his experiences of making fresh chocolate in Nicaragua
‘I always find good food, even in the most improbable places’
Q&A with Maricel Presilla, winner of the Outstanding Chef Mid-Atlantic prize given by the prestigious James Beard Foundation. She is a member of the Grand Jury of The International Chocolate Awards taking place in London on May 28
International Chocolate Awards
Announcing the European semi-final of the International Chocolate Awards, plus the winners of the Italian National Competition, recently held in Florence in April.
Chocolate makers of the Lower Rhone
The artisan chocolatiers of the Lower Rhone region of France have been making chocolate for at least 100 years. Seventy% digs out their stories.
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 ...
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...
Mast Brothers – Grand Cru 81%
A chance to see how the Mast Brothers approach beans that clearly display strong Criollo characteristics, particularly interesting given that they have chosen a much higher percentage than is more often applied with such stock....
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...
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.
