Founded: | 1908 |
Headquarters: | Schwyz, Switzerland |
Style: | Classic |
Characteristics: | |
Ferment: | medium |
Roast: | medium |
Conche: | deep & long |
Impact: | Hyper-Swiss processing, though perhaps just shy of supreme unctuousness epitomized by Cluizel + some of the great Italian bar-smiths, making for chocolate equally refined & pointed thanks in part to antique longitudinal conches lapping back & forth for days at around 80ºC / 176ºF. Ascended to Grand Cru nobility when Maracaibo Clasificado was voted top couverture by a European pastry academy. |
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