It could be just a difference in the transliteration of the word. That's
why the same Japanese (or whatever) word can be translated into different
English spellings, because it's an English approximation for the "foreign"
word. "Griollo" may simply be how some people hear it when "criollo" is
pronounced - especially the French (Valrhona is a French company) with the
unique sounds of their language...

"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Blake Jones wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a misprint to me; I've never seen that used as an alternate
> > spelling. A wrapper from Le Noir Amer that I have lying around says
> > "Trinitarios and Criollos origins", and Google has more than a thousand
> > times as many hits on "criollo" as on "griollo" (177,000 vs. 113).
>
> I wonder how an error like this could go unnoticed
> long enough for it to reach me. They don't change
> their label every day. It must have been this way for
> years.