There truly is a chocolate factory owned by Willie. That would be Willie Harcourt-Cooze, a UK chocolatier who has turned back time, producing amazing chocolate with his antique chocolate machinery.
He has been farming cacao beans for more than a decade in Venezuela. The cacao trees are not sprayed with pesticides, fertilizers or chemicals, and once harvested and fermented they head off to the UK to be turned into delicious chocolate bars at his chocolate factory.
If you have the luck of finding his chocolate, snatch it up quick. It’s in quite high demand and there have been long line-ups for it at Selfridges in the UK.
What’s the big deal? That’s what I wondered and thanks to a fellow tweep on Twitter, ERGagit, I was able to get a special delivery of the Peruvian 70 bar. The bar is from their Forgotten Flavours collection and the beans come from the province of San Martin in Peru.
In each box, there are two slim dark chocolate wafers (70%) individually wrapped. The box notes: one for now – one for then. I have to say I’ve not tasted chocolate quite like this. It really is different.
When I let it melt in my mouth, I picked up a sour fruity taste as the sweetness came through to the top. It was incredibly smooth and rich like a full bodied wine.
I’ve been rationing it now because I know once it’s gone it will be a very long time before I’ll be able to get a hold of another bar. I’m starting to understand why people lined up. He has raised the bar to new heights.
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Hi there. I just came across your blog and I’m loving the chocolate passion. Found some good recipes too.
found it in harvy nicks in scotland. best chocolate ever tasted. need to find out where i can get it near sunderland