The Ultimate Decadence - Cluizel Chocolate For Life!

Here is a gift idea for you. If you have too much money and I mean way too much money and you happen to know and love a chocoholic here is a gift option for you. The person that receives your gift will recieve a shipment of $200 worth of Michel Cluizel chocolate, selected from the company’s range of offerings, every week and for the rest of that persons life! This package comes wit a chocolate room for the home of the person that receives the chocolates, designed by Richard Perl, Cluizel’s CEO and sommelier of chocolate, and a tutorial from Perl on how to better appreciate fine chocolate. The room will provide ideal conditions for the chocolate. Temperatures from the mid-50s to the low 60s and a humidity level of 58 percent. A chocolate den, with chocolate memorabilia on the walls, a jewel-case fridge with chocolate on display, and a table for tastings.The gift also includes a private tour of the Cluizel factory in Damville, France, with Michel Cluizel himself as guide. Also, the weekly deliveries can be redirect per request. For example, you can arrange a monthly schedule in which you receive the first shipment while sending the second to the mother, to the sister and so forth. This gift could prove bittersweet, and not only because it will threaten your waistline. It will also ruin your taste for the mass-market chocolate. Many brands, including some good brands, use emulsifiers such as soy lecithin, which detract from the purity and the experience of eating the chocolate. Most of the world’s chocolate is derived from cocoa grown on more than one plantation, and sometimes from chocolate grown in more than one region of the world. Each of a line of Michel Cluizel chocolates, however, comes from the yield of a single plantation. Cluizel debuted three of these offerings in 1997, each named for its home plantation: Concepcion, which is in Venezuela’s Barlovento Valley; Los Anconès, located on the Caribbean island of Santo Domingo; and Mangaro, in Madagascar. The company eventually added two more chocolates to the collection: Tamarina, from the west African island of São Tomé, and Papua New Guinea’s Maralumi.

Single-plantation chocolate’s flavor is vastly different from the milk chocolate of a Hershey bar, and for some, it is a taste they never acquire. Like good wine, single-plantation chocolate reflects the soil and the climate in which the cacao beans are grown. The real chocolate aficionados will always want single-plantation chocolate. Although by now you should know better, but you ask anyway; Well this chocolate deal will you back a cool $ 4 million. Since you asked, chances are you can't afford it!