I've been sent a couple of leaflets from this lot www.chocexpress.com,
but I've never seen them mentioned here in a couple of years of
lurking and occasional posting. I know I shouldn't really respond to
junk mail, because it only encourages them, but my OH is a big
chocoholic and I thought this
http://www.chocexpress.com/cx1/enrolment.asp?article_id=offer1
would
make a good present.
Goodness, but these are good chocolates. Really. Well worth a try. I
see they have clearance offers on too, which I am really rather
tempted by (especially the end of season clearance). The dark
chocolate is easily much higher in cocoa than anything Lindt have to
offer (as you no doubt all know, the brand the UK supermarkets would
have us believe is luxury good chocolate) and is about a thousand
times more tasty. No bitterness, no strange sour tastes, just lovely
fresh chocolate. The little batons of dark chocolate are enough to
keep you going for days, they melt just right and the taste lingers
for hours. The box says 'delicious fresh chocolates', and I really
can't argue.
The 'fruit centres' actually taste of fruit (beware the blueberry
bombe - the centre is sharp and tangy, but offset beautifully by the
white chocolate surrounding it) and I even loved the coffee-flavoured
choc, which I usually despise. Oh, and the nut ones, again I usually
leave those.
They are delivered to your door in a nice slimline parcel that fits
through the letterbox, so no trawling shops in vain for that lovely
discontinued line, or having to go to the post office to retrieve a
battered box. IIRC delivery is free, and the site said it should
arrive in about ten days. My order arrived in bang on ten days, on
christmas eve, fantastic timing.
A word of warning though, the ones with the full glass next to them in
the tasting notes really *are* stuffed with real liqueurs, which is a
bit of a shock after eating pale imitations. I believe it is possible
to get nicely drunk on a few of those chocs. ;-)
They also have an ethical policy, which is nice, but I shall save that
for another thread (let's get some posts going here!). I'll just say
that I highly recommend them, despite the high price - it's well worth
it. We are seriously considering spending the £15 a month for the club
(you can cancel after the offer box, but you won't want to!), and
we're generally a bit miserly about luxuries, so that should give an
indication as to how wonderful we think these chocs are. :-)
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