Bernard Loiseau-La Cote d'Or, Saulieu

A dark experience of the chocolate kind

Advantages: divine
Disadvantages: none

Come on have a dark experience with me, a piece of Cote d'or Experiences 70% Cocoa. I love dark chocolates and this is no exception. You can buy a 100g bar in Tescos for £1.29p. This bar is wrapped seductively in a dark card wrapper with gold writing. It looks like a glimmer of light is falling on a picture square of chocolate. I open the packet and reveal a dark coloured chocolate. This chocolate is quite a thin layer not thick and chunky. The squares are quite large not many in the bar, 6 or was it 8 squares in this 100g bar. It is possible to break each square into a smaller piece. The chocolate is quite brittle. Pop a square into your mouth and the flavour is dark and intense. The chocolate smooth and silky on your tongue There is a crisp outer shell of chocolate which when bitten breaks into the rich dark chocolate ...

mumsymary 27.02.2008 · Read full review
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A DARK (chocolate) EXPERIENCE

Advantages: Long lasting flavour
Disadvantages: Not for those who dislike dark chocolate

"Cote d'Or" Experiences 100g bar. As you probably know, I enjoy the occasional taste of chocolate. This week I thought I would return to dark chocolate, as it is meant to be a healthier option to milk chocolate (which I prefer). The Cote d'Or Experiences 70% cocoa dark is the one that I decided to try, for the first time. I was curious as to why they have an elephant as a logo and also my knowledge of Cote d'Or centres around the wine region off France. So, some research of their website was necessary. Some Facts * Charles Neuhaus, a Belgian, set out to find cocoa beans to make his new chocolate. He found them in West Africa (then known as The Gold Coast ( Cote d'Or) and this inspired his choice of an elephant logo. Well, that sorts out the name and logo mystery. * The beans still come from West Africa ...

bryspy 07.10.2008 · Read full review
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I've had better chocolate ice creams than Carte D'Or

Advantages: Looks attractive, gives a sense of luxury
Disadvantages: Chocolate taste overpowers the white ice cream, awkward lid

I have just - finally - managed to finish a 900ml tub of Carte D'Or Chocolate Inspiration ice cream that was bought some time ago and has been lingering in our freezer for some time, being ignored in favour of other flavours of ice cream that have much more appeal in my mind. Although I am well known for my love of chocolate and also recognised to be particularly fond of ice cream, this offering from Walls just doesn't work for me. The first point of difficulty I noted with the ice cream was the tub. For some reason, these fancier (and more expensive) one-litre tubs of ice cream seem to come in more glamorous looking tubs than the standard, Walls Soft Scoop, square two-litre tubs of vanilla and I am not sure why. The Carte D'Or tub is one of those too-rounded-to-be-a-rectangle shapes which features an irritating, "breakaway" plastic tab ...

KateHurst 30.06.2009 · Read full review
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