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Aurosó took a break for a while but they’re back making super low-sugar, high-cocoa content chocolate and I loved the 90% cocoa Candied Orange Florins, an excellent chewy treat, like a very grownup chocolate coin. Grá and Corra were two new makes to me. If you know someone who loves peanuts then they’ll love the oozy crunchy 60% cocoa Corra Peanuts Crunchy bar. Grá is an Irish chocolatier that makes very pretty long lozenge-shaped filled chocolates. They were a tad too sweet for me, but my testers loved them.

A recent trip to Poole saw me meeting my longtime friend Hester on Branksome promenade, and while walking along the seafront she gave me two bars of Dorset Chocolate that were devoured by my family on return: Stars Over Cranborne, a 63% bar went down very nicely with the “not sure if I like dark” brigade, and the toffee in All the Fun of the Fair added extra crunch to a very creamy 42% milk.

Pierre Marcolini – king of pralines, along with Alain Ducasse – has launched an excellent My Journey Through Japan box, and every tiny chocolate is a magical flavour-bomb. I don’t always like everything Marcolini does, but this box? Every one a treat. (Currently in-store only. Back in stock online soon.)

Finally, Philip Khoury has added to his Love Letters chocolate bars with the gorgeous chocolate-covered Nuts Upon Nuts Trio (the chocolate is also made from the nut it covers, to give a non-dairy creaminess) and the box is crammed satisfyingly full.