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All milk - Slight change The All Milk Selection will soon be available to members, extending our choice to seven regular selections – Classic, Dark, Elements, Trio, Purist, Fortified (quarterly) and the new All Milk.
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his brand new All Milk Selection will be slightly different to our Classic and Dark Selections in that it will feature three each of nine filled chocolates (rather than the usual two each). That’s as well as four chocolate batons, making 31 chocolates in all. One other difference you may notice is the box colour. A few months ago we selected a shortlist of colours and asked members to vote on which one they preferred. The lilac-blue came in first with just under 50% of the vote. However, many who voted
for that colour expressed the view that it was somewhat wishy-washy and we rather agreed. We sought to develop a stronger colour and succeeded – only to realise that what we had now created was uncomfortably like another very wellknown colour in the chocolate world…! So, rather than cause potential problems, we decided to look at the second choice, gold, which was a very close runner-up with 42% of the vote. Given that this was a rich, strong colour and also reminiscent of the golden yellow of cocoa pods, we decided to go with it. We hope you’ll agree we made the right choice. In any event, whilst the colour of the box is important, the key to success will clearly be in the eating – and on that we have no doubt that milk chocolate lovers will be in total agreement!
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Competition Results NAME THAT ISLAND!
And we’re delighted to say that quite a few of you could! Thank you all for entering – our winner, who wins a Hotel Chocolat Signature Collection, was picked at random from all of the correct entries:
Cocoa thrives on many tropical Mrs Jean Hewat from Selkirk islands from the East and West African coasts, to the Far East, South The correct answers are: America and the West Indies. But we A Papua New Guinea D Trinidad asked you if you could name the five B Sao Tomé or Thomé E Saint Lucia C Madagascar cocoa-growing islands below. a.
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