Notes on chocolate: buttons without the panto

No bars and only two ingredients… yet this dark chocolate is intensely good

I have something very special this week. A while ago, Bobbie of L’Esterre chocolate contacted me wanting to know if I would try her chocolate. She had recently taken over the family cocoa business – started by her grandfather in 1949 – as she had found herself ‘stranded’ in Grenada, where the cocoa farm is, over the pandemic.

This is not an unusual request and I’m always happy to try new chocolate. Thing is, I didn’t expect it to be quite so good.

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