Chocolate You Would Recommend?

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Permalink Reply by Clay Gordon on February 1, 2008 at 12:00pm

I believe the bars you are describing are from Charlemagne in Belgium.

This is a link to the product page with a picture. The green tea bar is the bottom one in the photo.

For those of you who don't have a local store that carries Charlemagne, one on-line source that carries them is ChocolateSource.com. In the upper-left of the home page is a drop down selector labeled "Brand." Click on that, select Charlemagne from the list, and you'll see these bars there. I believe that Chocolate Source (which is also the company behind the Nirvana brand) is the importer.

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 1, 2008 at 12:02pm

Thank you so much Clay! That's them! :)

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 1, 2008 at 12:03pm

I got a head of myself there, posting before I finished! Would you recommend them at all?

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Permalink Reply by Clay Gordon on February 1, 2008 at 12:47pm

I have only tasted one of them and it was at the Fancy Food Show last July after a long day of tasting other stuff. So, actually, I don't remember. Chances are the chocolate is not made by Charlemagne but sourced from Callebaut or Belcolade but it could be someone else. Charlemagne is adding the flavorings and they usually do a very good job. There is every good chance that the green tea bar is at least as good as the Dolfin green tea bar which is pretty darn good, IMO.

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 1, 2008 at 4:51pm

Thanks Clay! I'll give them a shot. :)

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 6, 2008 at 11:31pm

Here's the link to my tasting notes:
Click here!

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Gross on February 1, 2008 at 12:25pm

Michel Cluizel--the higher percentages aren't as good as his 60s and 70s

Hachez -- stay away! doesn't live up to anything


Santander -- all of the dark ones I've tried have been surprisingly great (for the low price I normally see them at)

Cafe Tasse---is very dry, not good

Nirvana---haven't tried

Vivani---- Excellent! all! perfect deepness and texture, love the lemon especially

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 1, 2008 at 4:52pm

Sarah, thanks so much for your reply! Looks like I'll have to give Cluizel, Santander and Vivani a try.

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Permalink Reply by Chocoflyer on February 1, 2008 at 7:24pm

I also recommend the Chocolate Covered nibs by Taza & the Banana Choco Pods by Chuao. Delicious!

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 1, 2008 at 11:46pm

Chocoflyer, I love, love, LOVE the Banana ChocPods too! I'm just enamored with that company, all of Chuao Chocolatier's stuff is so good!

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Gross on February 2, 2008 at 7:12am

Everything from Chuao, especially the pods, are insanely amazing!

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Permalink Reply by Sera on February 2, 2008 at 8:22pm

Ok, here's what I purchased"

Vivani: Dark Chocolate with Green Tea, Dark Chocolate with Lemon

Charlemagne: Plain (red wrapper), with Cinnamon (blue wrapper) and Green Tea (green wrapper)

Michel Cluizel: Ier Cre de Planation of Sao Tome (bright blue wrapper) and the Madagascar (orange wrapper).

Don Puglisi Rustic Drinking Chocolate Bar

I also saw some new things there that I've never heard of. I would have written it down but I didn't have a pen on me and my camera was home with its battery getting charged. Figures! *sigh*

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