Top Notch Chocolate

This chocolate is not like your typical Hershey bar.Amedei Tuscany is a top notch chocolatier, located in Valdera, Tuscany. Amedei’s renowned excellence starts from the ground up. Their bold combination of ingredients and the distinctive purity of recipes that is evident in their chocolate lands this company in TLC’s list of Top 5 Chocolatiers Around the World.Amedei has created 7 different varieties of chocolate, ranging from dark chocolate- the Toscano Black, Toscano Brown, and Toscano White. Toscano Black comes in a 70% blend, 66% blend, and 63% blend. Toscano Brown portrays the freshness and flavor of milk, which is also the recurrent note in Toscano White, along with a vanilla and honey aroma. There is also Toscano Red and Toscano Blend, which combines fruit and chocolate. The “9” chocolate brings together cocoa of 9 different plantations that the company discovered around the world. This mixture is a well-balanced dark chocolate that incorporates citrus fruit and toasted sweet almonds and has a cocoa and hot chocolate aroma. One of Amedei’s specialties is Porcelana. This is the first chocolate in the world that is made with cocoa from a single genetic stock. The name Porcelana represents the extra-white hue of the bean from which it’s made. Porcelana was not crossed with other plants so it bears little fruit. Only 3,000 kilograms are harvested each year, so the stock is limited. Porcelana is 70% dark chocolate, but it is quite delicate, especially with its aroma of toasted almonds.Amedei only has a few stores in the United States that carry their fine brand of chocolate, but they have won numerous prizes at international competitions. It costs a cool $100 per pound because of its primary ingredient- the world’s best cacao.Source: AMEDEI