The Chocsters 2008
Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s that time of year again. A time when we dubiously latch on to another well known award ceremony to present you with our picks of the best of the last year on Chocablog!
We may not have Jon Stewart to host our award ceremonies, but we were lucky enough not to have a 3 month chocolatiers strike either. So I guess that makes us even.
So, without further ado, the winners of this year’s Chocster Awards are:
Readers’ Choice Award Cadbury Wispa Back in January, we asked you to vote on your favourite chocolate we’ve reviewed over the last 12 months. It was a close run thing, but the reincarnated Cadbury Wispa was your choice! |
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Best Speciality Chocolate De Bondt ‘Aromatico’ Coriander Chocolate Yup, that’s coriander in chocolate. And we love it. |
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Best Everyday Chocolate Milky Way Magic Stars Potentially a controversial choice, we know. But there is something about Magic Stars that demands that you eat them until you’re sick. And in our strange way, we like that. |
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Best Filling Lindt Petit Desserts Tiramisu We simply adored the Petits Deserts range, but the judges have gone with this as the pick of the bunch. A definite must buy. |
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Best Presentation Hotel Chocolat Secrets & Desires The chocolate in this Valentines Day box was wonderful, but the presentation made the simple act of opening the box an experience in itself. |
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Best Chocolate In A Foreign Language Goplana Klasyczna Gorzka Karmelowa This deliciously dark caramel bar from Poland wasn’t around in my local shop for very long. Mostly because I ate it all, and now I want it back. Delicious. |
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Best Antipodean Offering Swiss Glory Our Aussie reviewer Kath Lockett may have described Swiss Glory as ‘sensational’, but she’s also starting to feel a little left out, so this year we’re hoping some Australian chocolate companies will send her some samples to get her teeth into. Come on guys! |
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Best Newcomer Emma Jackman Yes, we’re giving a virtual award to a real life person! Emma’s range of Conscious Chocolate is so unique, distinctive and unlike anything you will have tried before, that we had to recognize the effort and love that she puts into creating her wonderful raw, vegan, sugar free chocolate products. Well done, Emma! |
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Chocolate Raspberry Award Montezuma’s Orange & Geranium Dark Chocolate Our coveted ‘Chocolate Razzie’ for the worst chocolate we’ve tasted this year goes to a bar of chocolate that tasted a little like dirty dish water and had the most pretentious blurb on the back of the packaging that we’ve ever read. |
Unfortunately, none of our winners can be here to receive their awards in person. Because we ate every last one of them (with the exception of Ms Jackman, who simply has better things to do, we imagine).
Sorry.
Readers Choice Wispa?? I think this is a rather puzzling decision myself…if anything it just shows the marketing genious of Cadburys!
James.. I’m inclined to agree, but the readers chose it, not me! Might be because it’s Cadbury, so it’s what people know, or it might just be because it brings back a lot of childhood memories for people.
I’m still scratching my head over ‘Milky Way Magic Stars’…
I think I’ll go celebrate today by getting myself some Swiss Glory – honey dark hearts, champagne bubbles and their plain chocolate bars… Life’s tough, I know