If you really want Michel Cluizel's Noir Infini, I found they are still in
stock at Chocosphere. The regular bars are out of stock (back in 6/5/04,
they say), but the "Noir Infini Squares" are in stock for $12 per.

Haven't tried this yet myself, but hey, I'm in chocolate heaven already what
with having Chocosphere here in my home town! I picked up a selection of
chocolate for my mom for Mother's Day last week, from their warehouse
will/call.

What I >am< working on, is an Excel spreadsheet of all the chocolates I've
tried and my "take" on them. The chart is getting rather large. At some
point I'll have to forsake Chocosphere to buy the chocolates they don't
carry...

Geoff

"Alex Rast" > wrote in message
...
> To the person finding Noir Infini out of stock - no, I don't believe it's
a
> production problem. Most likely stocks are just running low because of
high
> popularity and the approaching summer. Most chocolatiers stop shipping in
> the summer, for obvious reasons, and so as a result as summer gets near
> stocks tend to disappear. You might need to wait until September/October.

at Thu, 13 May 2004 05:03:58 GMT in <1lDoc.37462$iF6.3770436@attbi_s02>,
(Geoff) wrote :

>If you really want Michel Cluizel's Noir Infini, I found they are still
>in stock at Chocosphere. The regular bars are out of stock (back in
>6/5/04, they say), but the "Noir Infini Squares" are in stock for $12
>per.

The little squares are probably ideal for most people, because Noir Infini
delivers quite a whack. If you're interested in a real taste-test, you
should try 50g at a time, but for a quick chocolate "hit" when you need it,
the squares would probably work well. Noir Infini is the ultimate product
to satisfy a chocolate craving, and you only need a little bit. Nothing
else chocolate I've ever had comes even close on the satisfaction gained to
amount consumed ratio.

>What I >am< working on, is an Excel spreadsheet of all the chocolates
>I've tried and my "take" on them. The chart is getting rather large.
>At some point I'll have to forsake Chocosphere to buy the chocolates
>they don't carry...

I have an Excel template, if you're really interested in getting serious in
terms of tasting and evaluating. It includes cells both for numerical
ratings and qualitative descriptions. It also includes a calculated
overall, based on sub-ratings. This is interesting to compare against your
stated overall (i.e. there's a calculated overall rating and another
overall rating that you can simply fill in) to see how much correlation
there is between your assessment of the chocolate in a particular area and
your overall opinion, or between your "objective" rating and your
"subjective" rating.

--
Alex Rast

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