Dark Bittersweet Chocolate "Guanaja" in a Tin Box - 70% Cocoa - 18 squares |
| Brand: Valrhona
Buy New: $14.10
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2612
Country: France
Media: Misc.
ASIN: B0001217H2
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Features:
| • | 3.1oz / 88g | | • | 70% cocoa | | • | No added fat or butter oil | | • | Imported from France |
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Product Description
Guanaja is the best known of the Valrhona Grands Crus as it was the first to delight the lovers of bitter dark chocolate. On 30th July 1502 Christopher Columbus landed on the Island of Guanaja, offshore from Honduras. Valrhona has given this legendary name to the most powerful of its chocolate Grands Crus. Valrhona has rediscovered the best cocoas, Criollos (tree) with the aroma of flowers and fruit, and the Trinitarios (tree) typified by a strong bouquet to mix them all together in an exceptional bitterness. Its intense taste brought out by hints of flowers reveals intensity - exceptionally long on the palate. Valrhona is considered by many chefs and gourmands around the world to produce the finest chocolate that contains no added fat or butter oil, resulting in less calories than most chocolate.
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Customer Reviews:
This is amazing chocolate November 30, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is truly amazing chocolate. Nothing like the ordinary dark chocolate. It is very intense, when it melts in the mouth and the flavor of a single square lasts well after you swallowed the square. "Long-lasting" is a distinctive characteristic of the Valrhona brand. You definitely taste the flavor at least one -- perhaps two -- minute after swallowing. The squares also make a pleasant "crock" under your teeth when you bit them. Each square is thin enough (much thinner than chocolate bars) not to oppose resistance to the teeth but thick enough to give you satisfaction when you bite it.
Up to few years ago, there was just no brand able to rival with Valrhona for quality. Nowadays, there are at least a couple of brands in the same league, but Valrhona's Guanaja remains my favorite.
This particular metal tin contains few squares (18, I think) and it is less value for money than the bigger carton box of 57 squares.
It is a bitter chocolate, if you like your chocolate sweet you might not like this one. It is better than most competitors' dark chocolate in that it is not powderish and it does not have a burnt aftertaste.
It is completely milk free, so if you are allergic to milk you can eat Guanaja safely. Valrhona's milk chocolate is Jivara.
I have been eating this chocolate for years, well before Amazon started stocking it. I fully recommend it.
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