" In the beginning, my biggest surprise has been to realize that cocoa can be compared to grapes. A good wine is born in the vineyard. A good chocolate originates in a plantation. For this reason, I have gone to research the origins of taste by studying with agronomists and compesinos, and keeping rigid rules of production in order to maintain the highest quality standards.
I feel the greatest, most beautiful sensations when I discover a virgin plantation, never visited by any westerner: I immediately think of how to transform it into a taste or an emotion to bring the perfume, and the atmosphere of that land to whomever tastes the chocolate."
Alessio Tessieri |
