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Red Star Chocolate – Ocumare 72%
After a long hiatus, during which Red Star was apparently tinkering with their process, Duffy returns with a revised Ocumare dark. A well-known but highly-reputed origin is an obvious place to start after process changes, and t...
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...
Elizabeth Shaw – all crunched up
Mint may be in the air, but not in the ingredients list, in an off-beat review of a British lower-mid market 'classic'. Warning: low percentage chocolate will be discussed!
Slow Chocolate: taste workshop – 12 November 2012
£100 per person, 11.00am-4.30pm, Monday 12 Nov 2012 9 Adam Street, London WC2N 6AA ‘Slow Chocolate’ is whole new approach to eating chocolate and the the art of chocolate appreciation. Fine chocolate is fast becomi...
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...