- 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.
L’artisan du Chocolat – Jamaica
Another bar produced from liquor – one step removed from bean to bar but getting closer – which also turns out to be L’Artisan’s most successful effort to date in this experiment. Almost certainly the fi...
Domori – Porcelana
This makes an interesting comparison with Amedei’s Porcelana. While Amedei’s offering seems wild and variable – only just on the edge of an acceptable chocolate taste, Domori have produced a more stable versio...
Valrhona – El Pedregal
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...
Amedei – Chuao
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...
