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Our Expertise

It takes more than cocoa from far-flung origins to create a Grand Chocolat

Through its exceptional cocoa expertise and its meticulous, clear-cut knowledge, Valrhona has written a long history, a history of a taste of uniqueness.

Expert of the Finest Cocoa

Valrhona pursues its passion and expertise for fine and rare cocoas around the world by:

Developing cultivation methods through long term partnerships with planters that are based on mutual trust and respect
Selecting the very best plantations and varietals to create the finest profiles in taste, color, aroma and feel.
Combining fine cocoas of different varietals and sources to create powerfully aromatic blends.

Creator of Unique Tastes

By applying their perfect sensorial analysis knowledge, Valrhona's experts blend the finest, rarest cocoas from different varieties and different origins, creating chocolates of the most authentic compositions, unveiling elaborate and unique flavours.

This perfect expertise of taste is perpetuated throughout the manufacturing process, where each step has been researched to develop the supreme aromatic qualities of each chocolate:

Roasting, adapted to the size and the origin of the cocoa beans,
Grinding, offering small-sized particles, providing incomparably fine texture,
Long conching developing intense aromas.

Cultivating taste is one of Valrhona’s fundamental values and the company’s sensorial analysis laboratory is a trendsetter in the industry.

Over 160 people make up a series of focused tasting panels that meet daily at Valrhona’s headquarters to rigorously sample raw materials, products in development and finished chocolates. As a result, the taste of Valrhona chocolate is recognized by professionals and gourmets alike as full-bodied and complex - in a word, exceptional.

This original, unrivalled approach ensures that Valrhona preserves its distinctiveness and perpetuates its taste of uniqueness.

Chocolate-Maker to the World's Greatest Chefs

Valrhona's Excellence was first and foremost developed for the professionals of taste.

Recognized by leading renowned craftsmen, singled out by the chefs of the most prestigious, fine gastronomy establishments, it is through this unique commitment to Excellence that Valrhona has enchanted a world of chocolate lovers, of connoisseurs, inviting them to discover a compendium of elusive gourmet delights.

In 1989, Valrhona created the Ecole du Grand Chocolat in Tain L’Hermitage to share its extensive technical knowledge in pâtisserie and chocolate making with its customers. Today, the Ecole du Grand Chocolat is a true center for creativity, developing recipes, and providing advice, training and technical support to professionals throughout the world of chocolate.

Valrhona, a chocolate manufacturer and a world leader in Le Grand Chocolat, pursues its passion and expertise to produce the finest aromatic chocolate, such us: chocolate bars, ballotin boxes and cooking chocolate powder.

About us- The Excellence - Our Commitment - Our History

Valrhona is a chocolate manufacturer and a world leader in Le Grand Chocolat, its products are recognized by professionals and chocolate lovers; as the cocoa powder, the ballotin boxes and the dark truffles.