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Tag: 70%

Review: Standout Chocolate – Lachuá Guatemala – 70% (*****)

Posted on October 16November 6 by KrisKellens

The Creator: The days are getting shorter, temperatures are dropping and the leaves of the trees are turning from green to yellow and red. Autumn is here. The season where I always return to one of my preferred products. Chocolate. Today, I present you Standout Chocolate from Sweden. Founded by Fredrik Martinsson  in 2018, the […]

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Review: Momotombo – Nicaragua Waslala 70% (****1/2) and Santos Palma Siuna 70% (****)

Posted on January 3January 3 by KrisKellens

The Creator: I’m proud to be able to introduce a new chocolate maker on my site today. At the end of 2020, I was contacted by the Italian wholesaler promoting Fabrica de Chocolate Momotombo in Europe. I was asked if I was interested in discovering the products made by this Nicaragua based chocolate maker. It […]

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Review: Mike&Becky – Fruity Kerala – 70% (****)

Posted on November 22November 22 by KrisKellens

The Creator: It is a difficult time for everybody. Our world is in a deep crisis. It is hard for people to get together, everybody is constantly on high alert about their health and traveling is nearly impossible as Covid keeps causing havoc around the globe. Luckily we can still turn to things that make […]

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Review: Legast – Piura Pérou 70% – 2016 Harvest (*****)

Posted on March 10March 10 by KrisKellens

The Creator: Thibaut Legast is one of the rising stars if the Belgian bean-to-bar chocolate scene. His work didn’t go unnoticed by Pierre Marcolini as he wrote his book on Belgian Chocolate – bean-to-bar generation. After a former less succesful first adventure in making chocolate from the bean, Thibaut was invited to Colombia to discover […]

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Review: Legast – Tumaco Colombia 70% – 2016 Harvest (****1/2)

Posted on December 16December 16 by KrisKellens

The Creator: Thibaut Legast is a passionate chocolate maker who first started working with the dark gold at the age of 15 in the family chocolate shop. Today he is at the helm of his operation and became a real chocolate maker by going bean-to-bar. Based in Braine-Le-Compte, situated in the Hainaut province, Thibaut works […]

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Review: Kuyay – Chocolate bitter 70% (****)

Posted on November 3November 4 by KrisKellens

The Creator: When visiting the Chocolate Heaven festival in Maastricht earlier this year, I was wandering past the different booths of the chocolate sellers displaying their goods. It is always great to see all the known brands on offer, but what intrigues me during shows are the bars I don’t know. Kuyay caught my eye […]

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Review: Aelan – Vanuatu – Island of Santo 70% (****)

Posted on August 5August 5 by KrisKellens

The Creator: Chocolate makers pop up all over the world. The bean to bar chocolate wave seems to have become a Tsunami. Daily I find out about new chocolate makers. When I visited Chocolate Heaven, an event in Maastricht – The Netherlands, I discovered some great looking bars made by Aelan. The immediately intrigued me, […]

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Review: Krakakoa – Sedayu Sumatra 70% (***1/2)

Posted on August 13February 12 by KrisKellens

The Creator: If you are into fine chocolate and start meeting equally interested souls, you might have the chance to taste something special from time to time. The chance of finding a bar of Indonesian bean-to-bar chocolate on a shelf in a shop around the corner is slim. Unless you live in Indonesia of course. […]

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Review: Mike&Becky – Peru Marañón 70 % (*****)

Posted on May 6February 12 by KrisKellens

The Creator: I have many bars in my stock that await being reviewed. But the one I have on the table here I anticipated the most. Mike&Becky gave me several bars at the end of January, yet they just had been manufactured. Clearly the bars needed to mature for a couple of weeks to obtain […]

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Review: Coup De Chocolat – Gusta Peru 70% (****1/2)

Posted on November 27February 12 by KrisKellens

The Creator: Coup de Chocolat is the result of two people meeting up. Isabelle Quirynen has been active in the world of fine chocolate since years. She started out organizing tastings and followed through by setting up her own web shop and worked for one of the bigger distributors of fine chocolate in Europe. She […]

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