Valrhona is a French chocolate manufacturer based in the small town of Tain L'Hermitage in Hermitage, a wine-growing district near Lyon. The company was founded in 1924 by a French pastry chef from the Rhône valley and has 5 subsidiaries and 60 local distributors across the globe. It is today one of the leading producers of high-quality chocolate in the world. The company also maintains the Ecole du Grand Chocolat, a school for professional chefs with a focus on chocolate-based dishes and pastries.

Valrhona focuses mainly on top-quality luxury chocolate marketed for professional as well as for private consumption. The product line includes chocolate confectionery, plain and flavored chocolate bars and bulk chocolate in bars or pellets. Valrhona is one of the few companies in the world that produces vintage chocolate made from beans of a single year's harvest from a specific plantation (Hawaiian Vintage is another). Currently three brands of vintage chocolates – Ampamakia, Gran Couva and Palmira – are in production with plantations in Madagascar, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela respectively.

External links

• Official Valrhona homepage

Chocolatiers

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