About: Valrhona is a French made chocolate that is targeted at professional chefs and 'high-brow' consumers. The company, now owned by Bongrain, a French company that is known for making cheese, is serious about chocolate (and, it goes without saying, in Cheese, since it's French and all). They offer culinary classes and lots of chocolate options for baking, as well as a line of dark chocolates. With that pedigree, I had high expectations.
Flavor: It's okay. It's really not bad at all. If you compare this to Godiva, for example, it's really so much better. But... I suppose I am a victim of my own expectations. I've had some mind-blowing French chocolate, but this was not it. The chocolate barely has any aroma, and the flavor is relatively simple and flat. There's nothing wrong with it, but there's nothing too right with it, either. In a word: bland.
Texture: Any 85% cacao bar is going to be a bit hard and brittle, and so is this one, but the texture overall is quite good.
My rating: 8.0 on the scale of 1-10, where 10 means 'mind shockingly good' and 1 means 'would not bother'. Give me more!
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