subject: Cosy Moments - Valrhona [print this page] Monsieur Guironnet was a French pastry chef who found a company in France in 1922 in a French small Town Tain L'Hermitage. This is the place from where Valrhona comes. Let's follow us to get more information about one of the most delicious chocolate of the world.
One of my best friend told me one time: I bought an average chocolate in a city shop after I ate a Valrhona. It was like a durable bread. If you have ever tried Valrhona you know what we are talking about. That's the different! With understanding that good chocolate is the beans, cocoa buyers for Valrhona travel the world sourcing plantations in the same sense winemakers source the best vineyards. Valrhona produces vintage chocolate made from beans which is grown in South America, the Oceania and the Caribbean.
Bean Criollo come from Venezuela, while Island of Trinidad (North-east corner of South America) produce Trinitario bean. Valrhona focuses mainly on high-grade luxury chocolate marketed for professional as well as for private consumption.
Valrhona chocolate has long been recognized as a rich and flavorful chocolate. They put to the market with beautiful packaging and long lasting flavor make the wonderful treat. (Gran Couva, Ampamakia - Madagascar, Palmira)
Doesn't matter whether you are a male or a female: excellent for gift giving. Do not hesitate, do it at the next occasion.
Anyway its ingredients: Minimum 40% cocoa (in the milk chocolate) sugar, cocoa butter, natural vanilla extract and soy lecithin emulsifier. For example restaurants can get it also with 100 percent cocoa powder.
Very much a rounded, balanced chocolate with excellent stability of aroma. The aroma is beautifully intoxicating. Many restaurants in the world use for their chocolate based "poems" Valrhona. Some of them has Michelin grade.
A certain long-lingering acidity unfolds to reveal fruity aromas while sensations of fresh plants mix with chocolaty flavors to produce a refined subtlety.
I would suggest for wine pairing this chocolate:
Brassfield Round Mountain Zinfandel (2005). Black cherry and vanilla flavors.
With vanilla fruit Chateau Ladouys St. Estephe Cabernet Sauvignon from 2005.
A. Mano Puglia Primitivo (2006): Fruity feeling! So cocoa's long lasting tastes you never forget.
