BEVERLY'S TASTING NOTE:
The moment this bar touches your tongue, something shifts. Porcelana opens with a whisper of jasmine and ripe stone fruit, then settles into the deepest, smoothest dark chocolate I have ever encountered in a lifetime of tasting. There is no bitterness — only a complexity that unfolds slowly, the way a great wine reveals itself over an hour. I have ordered this bar every year for over a decade and it astonishes me every single time.
Cacao - 70%
Price - $24–$32
Size - 50g bar
WHAT MAKES IT EXTRAORDINARY:
Made from Porcelana cacao — a near-extinct white Criollo strain grown in Venezuela's Chuao region, so fragile it nearly vanished from the world entirely. Amedei purchases the entire annual harvest, which amounts to only a few hundred kilos. This is not a chocolate you stumble upon. It is a chocolate you seek out.
The moment this bar touches your tongue, something shifts. Porcelana opens with jasmine and ripe stone fruit, then settles into the deepest, smoothest dark chocolate I have ever encountered. There is no bitterness — only a complexity that unfolds slowly, the way a great wine reveals itself. I have ordered this bar every year for over a decade and it astonishes me every time.
