Artisanal Chocolate in the Cape – from Bean to Bar!
It took a visit to DV chocolates to realize that chocolate has become a commodity. Chocolate is of course made from Cocoa Beans. These beans come from many different regions and their flavour profile not only changes from region to region – but will also be affected each year by things such as climate – eg a dry year. As such chocolate can have an estimated 600 different flavour compounds!! So how do the big chocolate guys make their chocolate…