Since I have to be very careful with how much chocolate I eat these days – I am very picky when it comes to chocolate! Here are few of my favorites since some are great as wedding favors and one, in particular, is great for Valentine’s Day!
1st – Lake Champlain Chocolates – One of the 1st I ever tried! Loved them – They have some great packaging for favors as well!
One of my friends gave me the Vosges Organic Dominican Republic (DR) Chocolate Bar! Obviously I dig it because my husband is from the DR, but also because his family owns a cacao farm! I have actual tasted a cacao while in it’s fruit/nut form direct from the tree in both the DR and Nicaragua (amazing and not what you expect really). The process of making chocolate is a strange one (not sure how they figured it out), but one that I am so grateful I learned about. Vosges has some of the greatest chocolates in the world and they have quite a green mission statement – which you can read here.
Possibly the most ridiculously rich and most expensive natural organic chocolates that I have ever tasted are from Richart. It is a French company that says nothing about being organic or going green on their website. However, I have visited 2 of their stores and have just never wanted to leave. The idea of going to a chocolate store and comparing it to an experience of being at a museum is probably preposterous to you. However – to me, when I eat chocolate – it is an experience. I can taste the nuances in each type of chocolate I eat. Richart is probably the most fascinating chocolate I have ever tasted in my life. These are the chocolates that you give on Valentine’s Day!
Source: Elegance & Simplicity
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