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The Most Expensive Chocolates, Yummmmmm

February 22, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Expensive Eats at 11:38 am | (1) Comment »

Chocolate-maker Richard Donnelly wants to change the way we eat chocolate- and I’m all taste buds.  For the most part, mass-produced, synthetic chocolate rules the market in the United States. 

Donnelly encourages our palates by saying, “The products made by commercial companies have to last a long time, and they also need to be inexpensive.  That means inexpensive ingredients.  It’s a completely different goal than we have, which is to make chocolates taste great.” 

Donnelly, like a growing number of chocolatiers, make handmade gourmet chocolate for sale in small amounts to a well-heeled crowd.  A pound of Richard Donnelly chocolate goes for around $75 per pound.  Is it worth it?  Yes.  Put down the Mars bar and come to where chocolate meets God.

The Most Expensive Chocolates (listed per pound):

• Chocopologie by Knipschildt, $2,600
• Noka Vintages Collection, $854
• Delafee, $508
• Godiva “G” Collection, $120
• Richart, $120
• Pierre Marcolini, $103
• Debauve & Gallais, $94
• Chuao, $79
• Richard Donnelly, $75
• Vosges Haut Chocolat, $69
• La Maison du Chocolat, $65
• Michel Cluizel, $65
• Jacques Torres Chocolate, $50

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