Michel Cluizel Chocolate Tasting Samplers w/Cacao Bean
Michel Cluizel Chocolate Tasting Samplers w/Cacao Bean
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Michel Cluizel Chocolate Tasting Samplers w/Cacao Bean
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Post #1 - February 4th, 2006, 11:01 amI received two boxes of chocolate tasting samplers by Michel Cluizel. for Xmas. Things I'd never shell out for on my own due to awful price to chocolate weight ratio, but it was interesting.
One of them has 7 different chocolates from different terroir -- hasn't been opened yet.
The other is more of a 'how chocolate is made' pack: aside from five depths of milk to dark chocolate (including a single-plantation varietal), and white chocolate (chocolate with all the chocolate taken out, but actually pretty good for that), there are four containers of the phases of chocolate, from cocoa butter and cocoa mass, back to nibs (which I've had in other chocolate bars, adds a nice crunch), and whole, dried beans.
The beans are amazing. I've been savoring them for rare occasions of a tastegasm. They taste like cocoa, pecans and cabernet. Not sweet at all, but not as bitter as unsweetened chocolate or cocoa, with a deep fermented wine flavor: a bit sour, with currant, pecan, oak and other notes I can't remember (I'm saving that last bean). Very crisp and dry, it's an amazing little flavor.
I could see crumbling these over sliced pork roast, or something like that. The nibs they include don't seem to have nearly the flavor. Has anyone seen these available anywhere in quantity?What is patriotism, but the love of good things we ate in our childhood?
-- Lin Yutang
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Post #2 - February 4th, 2006, 4:08 pmJoelF wrote: Has anyone seen these available anywhere in quantity?
Around Christmas time I saw them for sale in bulk at Fox & Obel. I'm not sure if they carry them all the time or not, since I don't shop there all that often.Steve Z.
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
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Post #3 - February 5th, 2006, 9:51 amscharffenberger sells them in cans...you can find them around town, or by mail order.CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
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Post #4 - March 1st, 2006, 1:08 pmQueijo wrote:scharffenberger sells them in cans...you can find them around town, or by mail order.
Has anyone seen Scharffenberger's chocolate-covered cacao nibs for sale locally? I love cacao nibs in my dark chocolate, so these sound as if they'd be right up my alley, but I haven't been able to locate them. You can buy them on Scharffenberger's web site, but once you add in shipping, it gets fairly pricey.
