The winners of the 2022 Golden Tablets announced

The best Italian chocolates awarded at the Taste in Florence

More than a thousand chocolates were tasted, almost ninety tasting panels from the early stages to the final. In the setting of the Unicredit Taste Arena in the Tuscan capital, finally in person, all the finalists of this twentieth edition were called to the stage, with the footage of the event broadcast live on

Facebook.

Furthermore, for the anniversary edition, special Tasting Boxes have been prepared containing the best chocolates of the last twenty years and a bottle of Barolo Chinato Cocchi, considered by the Chocolate Company to be the best combination for tasting.
The construction of the entire box was closely followed by the Spaghetti&Mandolino team, who collaborated closely with the Company for the success of the event

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All the winners

The city of Turin is represented, in this twentieth edition of the award, by the master chocolatier Guido Gobino, who has seen the triumph, in addition to the “best giandujotto of the last twenty years”, namely Maximo 39, also two other creations: in fact, his Spiced Caramel Semispheres and Tourinot spreadable cream have won a tie at the top of the

category with Riccosa made from 51% hazelnuts by Slitti.

Remaining in Piedmont, we find among the winners Domori's Criollo 80% dark chocolate, a company from None founded in 1997 that also wins 70% with Criollo Chuao for the original dark chocolate category; Venchi, finally, brings two chocolates to triumph for the flavored category, a dark and mint and an “Ugly but good coffee and nougatine”, with a third prize to mention for the milk chocolate category with high percentages of

cocoa (Venezuela 47%).

Slitti from Pistoia is playing at home, with two chocolates selected for the Tasting Box of the twentieth edition of the “Golden Tablet”: his 73% GranCacao wins on a par with Domori in the dark chocolate category, while 45% dairy won a place of honor among the winners of the twenty years.

Tuscan is also the Cremino Varvaro with three layers of milk and gianduja, the winner on a par with the Bolognese Majani (Cremino Inca Maracaibo).

Three prizes fly to Lecce, with the categories 100% Cocoa Mass, Milk Chocolate and with coated fruits (also for the twenty-year selection): the quartet won the Maglio company, with 100% Cuyagua, 36% Papuasia, covered orange fillets and its covered clementines. Still in the South we find Sabadì, a multi-recognized Modica chocolate that wins for the Raw Chocolates category (Agrigento Chocolate), the Flavoured Chocolate (refined nutmeg chocolate) and with Giovinezza chocolate for the

20th anniversary of the Crude category.

Finally, it should also be noted the international award ceremony for Francois Pralus, who won with the Fortissima 80% tablet (in collaboration with Leonardi Dolciumi

from Ravenna).

In conclusion, it should always be remembered, as the President of the Company Gilberto Mora rightly notes, that reaching the final in this competition already involves the status of excellent chocolate: the award of the prize to a candidate or a couple of equal merits must not suggest that the other names in the selected rose have a significantly lower quality

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