Chocolate maker Alan McClure of Patric Chocolate, wrote recently about the chocolate purists ‘myth’ that chocolate made from Criollo cacao might taste better that chocolate made with other types of cacao?

“You be the judge,” he said “and I mean this literally. Buy chocolate made by companies that take chocolate seriously. Taste it and decide if you like it. Whether it says Criollo on the label or not, and whether it really is Criollo or not, you’ll either like the chocolate, or you won’t. As you get more serious about chocolate, you’ll begin to figure out with increasing precision what it is that really draws you to a chocolate–what qualities you like most in a chocolate. Who cares what the cacao is called at that point. Enjoy your chocolate, that is the whole reason for its existence.”