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Valrhona - Chocolate Feves - Guanaja 70% - 250 g
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Valrhona - Cocoa Powder - 250 g
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About Valrhona
- Based in
- France
- Founded
- 1922
- Known for
- Guanaja 70% and chocolate for pastry chefs
Albéric Guironnet, a pastry maker, set up the Chocolaterie du Vivarais in Tain-l'Hermitage in 1922. The Valrhona name came in 1947, a contraction of Vallée du Rhône. In 1989 the company opened L'École du Grand Chocolat in Tain-l'Hermitage to share its know-how with chefs, and in January 2020 it became a Certified B Corporation.
Guanaja, Valrhona's signature dark chocolate, dates to 1986. The company blends cocoas from different growing regions for some of its chocolates, and says it checks all of its cocoa beans by taste and smell.
Chocolate made for pastry work goes into baking and hot chocolate, and cocoa is used for dusting truffles and tiramisu.
Valrhona questions
What does it mean that Valrhona is a Certified B Corporation?
A Certified B Corporation is a for-profit company certified by B Lab, a nonprofit, for meeting standards on social and environmental performance, accountability and openness to public scrutiny. Companies have to recertify every three years to keep the status. Valrhona has held it since January 2020.
What does the percentage on dark chocolate mean?
The percentage counts everything in the chocolate that comes from the cacao bean: the ground bean plus cacao butter, its natural fat. A higher number usually means a more bitter, intense chocolate with less room for sugar. Valrhona says that printing 70% on a dark chocolate wrapper, as it did in the 1980s, was a revolution at the time.
