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About
Azurelise
Azurelise
chocolate truffles' unusually thick, melt slowly in your mouth chocolate
shells combine with their creamy smooth, incredibly delectable
fillings to make them as perfect as chocolate truffles can be, and the first choice of hard to please chocolate lovers
worldwide. They come in a wide assortment of
can't-find-anywhere-else flavors, all the original and exclusive
creations of Raleigh, North Carolina based independent chocolatier
Reginald O. Savage. Read what some chocolate lovers have to say
about Azurelise:
Greg
Cox, senior food critic and editor for Raleigh, North Carolina's News
& Observer newspaper. "Say your lover has a
chocolate fetish? Then get thee to Azurelise...These are not your
typical prettified confections with icing squiggles and candied
flowers on top, mind you. They're truffles for the purist, unadorned
squares of chocolate that let their flavor do the
talking".
Joyce
Fowler, manager of Chapel Hill,
North Carolina's A Southern Season's candy department, News & Observer
Interview: "Azurelise chocolate truffles
don't taste like any
others. The fillings are very pure...They're very fresh.
They are complex like wine with a beginning, middle and
finishing taste. The flavors don't jump out in your
face...Very subtle. It takes a little longer for the
flavors to bloom in your mouth. You tend to be more
thoughtful when you're eating them."
Christina
L. (Raleigh, NC) Yelp Review: "Finally some
good chocolate outside of Belgium! My husband is
Belgian and the family sends us great chocolates.
After having real Belgian chocolate it's hard to eat
most of the stuff you buy in the US. Even the
imported "Belgian" chocolate here is usually not
the best quality. It's usually the "grocery
store" brands you would find in Belgium.
Southern Season has some nice chocolates, Neuhaus is
probably the best Belgian chocolate they carry. We
were lucky enough yesterday to meet the chocolatier behind
the Azurelise brand, sold at Southern Season. We had
a sample and spoke to the gentleman for a while. We
decided to buy a box because they were so good! We
ate them all already...so now we have to get more.
Track these chocolates down if you are looking for
some really good treats."
Ted
Z. (Chapel Hill, NC) Yelp Review: "Skip over the
Godiva and Neuhaus sections at A Southern Season and head
to the small stack of Azurelise chocolates sandwiched
between the glass display cases. If you're lucky, you'll
meet Reginald Savage, the master chocolatier himself, who
will let you sample one (or three in my case) pieces of
his delicious creations. These things taste like nothing
I've ever had before. I've tried a raspberry truffle,
orange truffle, hazelnut buttercream, and milk and dark
chocolate sea salt caramels (they taste even better than
they sound). He advised me to put the entire fruit
truffles in my mouth because the fresh fruit just oozes
out when you bite in. He used to sell truffles with
alcohol in them (such as the popular "Genius"
truffle made with Guinness), but these were banned, at
least temporarily - rumor has it they may be on the way
back, so stay on the lookout. "
Candy
Addict Chocolate Review by Brian Silpa
(see link below): "The
truffles aren’t your ordinary fancy,
embellished truffles. These look, in
fact… ordinary. They are approximately
1.25″ x 1.25″ x 0.5″
– they have no fancy flowers on them
or swirly-q or anything else. Just a
simple plaid pattern and the word
AZURELISE diagonally across
them..."
"The
milk chocolate is wonderful. The chocolate has a good
thickness to it and is nice and smooth. The center plays
well with the milk chocolate in a plain, but delicious,
chocolate sort of way. The dark chocolate has a definite
dark chocolate bite to it and if you like dark chocolate
you should love this. Like the milk chocolate, the outer
shell of the dark chocolate is nice and thick and also
plays well with the truffle center..."
"Both
the milk and dark chocolate truffles are excellent and I
can give them both a hearty two thumbs up. "
Amanda
Huegerich: "I
just pop one in my mouth and I'm
happy."
Amanda
Huegerich
Shalina
Peera, Food
Obsessed Review: My
favorite sweets combination is sea salt, caramels and dark
chocolate. i've eaten quite a few sea salt caramel
chocolates (sscc) in the past few years to determine which
is the best :) azurelise is a chocolatier
located in raleigh, north carolina and i
originally saw these tasty treats on the food network
...so i was super happy to get them as a gift in the mail
from a friend (thanks alysha!). they are very very (very)
tasty and one of the best sea salt caramel chocolates (sscc)
that i've tried in a long time.
the
best part about these sweet treats is the salted caramel,
it has the perfect amount of sea salt and it's evenly
distributed. some of the sscc that i've tried in the past
don't have enough sea salt in the caramel ..or they put
the sea salt on top of the chocolate encasing the caramel
...which tends to fall off of during transit!!! i also
love the texture of azurelise's caramel, it's perfect
because it doesn't run all over your hands (for being too
soft) or get stuck in your teeth (for being too
hard/chewy). the caramel texture is the same consistency
of whipped butter -- creamy, velvety, light and airy!
another great thing about these chocolates is the size,
they are big and not itty bitty!! most sscc are small
enough for one bite, but you can get FOUR bites
out of the azurelise chocolates! i'm happy to
report that azurelise ships to locations all over the US,
yippee!!
Michelle
C., (Corpus Christi TX) Yelp Review: These
truffles are my new favorite thing! I stumbled upon them
while on a business trip when I visited A Southern Season.
They are divine! I was always a milk chocolate
person but after I tasted the dark chocolate sea salt
caramels, I couldn't believe my taste buds! I
ordered some for Valentine's Day for my boyfriend and the
owner actually called me directly to help me with my
order. A few days later, he called again to make
sure I'd received my order and was happy with it. I highly
recommend these truffles! Not only are they delicious, but
they are made by a genuinely passionate person who cares
greatly about the quality of his product and the
satisfaction of his customers.
Liz
C., (Delray Beach, FL) Yelp Review: Great
truffles, you can really tell they are homemade! The owner
Reginald even called me personally when my order had not
arrived, great customer service!
Allysha
T., (Raleigh, NC) Yelp Review, BEST SEA SALT
CARAMEL TRUFFLES IN RALEIGH. (Although my neighbors come
pretty close) A girlfirend sent me his link and I've
since run into these chocolates at a Southern Season and
and Whole Foods (Raleigh). I also special ordered
about a dozen or so boxes around Christmas time - they
make fabulous gifts! My favorites are the Dark/Milk
chocolate combination Sea Salt Caramel Truffles. Lots of
Caramel. Perfect caramel texture (not too runny and not to
thick and chewy) I get about 2 to 3 bites out of each. AND
THE BEST PART: the salt. There are tiny pieces throughout
the caramel. Delicious. I would suggest ordering
online. You can pick and choose different combinations,
they are all good and you will have FRESH truffles! yay!!
I was lucky enough to receive a test batch of chocolates
infused with Shiraz - SWOON. Reginald Savage is a very
nice man and awesome chocolatier, hats off to you my
friend!
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