really good chocolate but too expensive! As I said in my tasting review I have been a member of another chocolate tasting club for many years (about 10). In your favour: the quality is really good and a nice variety of different kind of chocolates and textures. Some of your chocolate is quite 'simple', which is not a problem, but the price relationship is just wrong. Hotel Chocolat gives you about 100 gr more in their box and charges less than you! I love that you use local chocolatiers, but they should therefore be if anything more reasonable as chocolate made and shipped from the continent.

Good but with room for improvement Whilst the flavours I have tried in three different boxes are nice, on the whole they are quite mundane and have been done in countless boxes of high street chocolates. For true chocolate aficionados there is certainly a lack of dark chocolate as well. The customer service team have been exemplary in my dealings with them and I think it's brilliant how the boxes are made to fit through your letter box. I'll wait to see what the next one or two boxes contain but unless there are more adventurous flavour combinations I will stop my membership as it would not be worth the cost in my case.

The chocolate is so tasty and the variety that comes in the box is so addictive you struggle to stop eating them. It was a great treat for for Easter as I didn't get to buy the Egg and eating every chocolate made me smile. I also enjoyed to vote on each of them so since there's two of each chocolate the first round I simply enjoyed them as I pleased and for the second round I actually tasted gingerly each layer and overall taste. It's just a fun box and the most fun I've had eating chocolate.

POOR I ordered chocolates via the Gourmet Society offer and have to say I am thoroughly disappointed. I wanted the chocolates for a gift for friends that I am not seeing until the middle of July; the chocolates arrived last week with a best before date of the end of June - no use to me whatsoever. Have contacted them to inform them but have had no helpful response. Having read all reviews wish I had seen them before I ordered. Just hope they take my e-mail as instruction not to send any more chocolates as will not be happy.

Much prefer Hotel Chocolat I thought I would try this as an alternative but found the chocolates far too sweet and no real flavour of chocolate, more like a Thornton's or Cadbury's selection. I realise that many people prefer this type of chocolate but I prefer chocolates made with high cocoa content from good cocoa beans. The fillings I found insipid and lacking in flavour. I do not like the taste of Sorbitel as a sweetner and really has no place in chocolate. These chocolates from Cocoa Boutique are just not for me.