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Wine Lover's Chocolate Collection Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Overrated and misleading
Comment: Anyone who knows anything about wine knows that wines made from Pinot Noir grapes can taste vastly different depending on many factors. Anyone who knows anything about chocolate can tell you that there are vast differences between chocolates of the same cacao percentage based on where the beans were grown and who made the chocolate.

To suggest that all of the wines made from a single varietal grape pair well with a specific percentage chocolate from a single manufacturer stretches credulity to the limit. For every acceptable pairing of the 72% chocolate with a Zinfandel, I can find dozens that don't taste very good at all.

Furthermore, the name of the company "San Francisco Chocolate Factory" suggests that the company actually manufactures the chocolate used to make these products when in fact they don't. Last time I looked, they were simply re-packing Guittard chocolate into nice-looking tins (which they buy from a company that makes tins).

So, this is an expensive way to get a lesson in chocolate and wine pairing that is simplistic at the least, and outright wrong in most cases. Anyone who is interested in learning more about pairing might want to take a look at my book (Discover Chocolate) which can be purchased right here on Amazon. I devote a whole chapter of the book to pairing chocolate with wines and spirits.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wine Lover's Chocolate! Heck! Anybody who loves chocolate!
Comment: If you're a chocolate lover you're in for an orgas....uhmmm...maybe I shouldn't use that word here. Just suffice it to say that this is some of the BEST chocolates I've ever eaten...they come in cute metal tins full of little pillows of pure heaven! San Francisco Chocolate leaves Cadbury, Hershey, Russel Stover, Whitmans and other domestic chocolate just tasting like sawdust!

This set of dark chocolate is an exciting way to teach your tastebuds how chocolate really should taste. I love the higher percentage dark, my husband prefers the lower...and chocolate truly is a nice compliment to wine.

We order these at Christmas and use them as stocking stuffers!

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