I’ve been really impressed with the quality and imagination of pretty much all of the Thorntons products I’ve tasted lately, so I had to pass this offer on.
Thorntons are currently offering a free hamper worth £25 when you spend £50 or more in their online shop.
To qualify, all you need to do is click here and enter the voucher code XBM6 at checkout.
But hurry because the offer ends this Friday (12th December)!
When I received this in the post recently I was immediately taken with the packaging design. I love the colours and the overall tone of the wrapper. It’s very Caribbean, with a ‘home made’ feel, and reading the information on the back told me quite a lot in not many words.
This chocolate isn’t just grown on Grenada, the whole process from tree to bar is undertaken by a co-operative. It’s beyond fair trade, if you will. They even use solar power in their factory!
The company’s website is well worth a visit, as it describes in detail (with pictures) the whole process of manufacture, from tree to finished product something many of you may not know much about.
The chocolate itself is a deep, glossy brown with that characteristic snap that only good quality, high cocoa content chocolate has. It has aromas of citrus and wood, with a slightly bitter top note which is typical of the Trinitario beans grown on Grenada. Being organic I think this chocolate tends to exhibit more of the beans’ complex flavours, and it’s the same on the palate. Melting away very quickly, this chocolate delivers a beautifully soft, light, bittersweet set of flavours. This chocolate reminded me of the Mulu Raw chocolate I reviewed a while ago – quick melting and whisper-light with a deliciously bittersweet, clean finish.
Of course, any chocolate made from organic ingredients by a small producer isn’t going to be cheap, but this is pretty special chocolate. The company have links on their site so that consumers worldwide can buy online or from local distributors, which is a very canny move. Another ‘special treat’ bar, methinks, but one well worth paying for.
Back in November, Chocablog reader Nada Wilson asked for a place to get in touch with other chocolate lovers around the world to swap chocolate.
Well I’m pleased to say, you can now do that right here on Chocablog thanks to our new forums!
The Chocablog Forums are a place to discuss anything chocolate related, from childhood chocolate memories to sharing recipes. And of course, we’ve set up a special “Chocolate Exchange” where you can get in touch with people all round the world and swap chocs.
So what are you waiting for? Come and join us!
Way back in July 2006, I reviewed Thorntons Continental Cappuccino – a bag of coffee flavoured chocolates that I found more than a little overpowering.
Well this looks to be the bar equivalent of that caffeine-infused bag of chocs. In fact, if you were to take a cross-section of the chocolates and the bar, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart on looks alone. So what we have here is a rounded bar of white chocolate, sprinkled with cocoa with a coffee truffle centre. It certainly looks quite tempting…
When you open the wrapper, the coffee aroma is subtle but tempting. And that sums up how the bar tastes too. It’s much smoother and creamier than the individual chocolates, and the coffee flavour (and caffeine rush!) is far less intense.
I was a little concerned the white chocolate was going to be so sweet, but because there’s such a high “filling to coating ratio”, it ends up working very well. The truffle filling has a very pleasant cocoa flavour which works perfectly with the coffee.
Overall, it’s a pretty decent mid-morning snack, and something I’d definitely consider buying again.
So far, I’ve been impressed with all the Thorntons’s “bars” that I’ve tasted, and I love the idea of taking something simple like an every day bar of chocolate and experimenting with flavours. I’m really glad to see that they’re coming out with interesting and fun new products. Long may it continue.