Best Gourmet Valentine Chocolates

2 February 2009 | By Popsop Team

Gourmet chocolate is every bit about the taste, but presentation is highly ranked, too, especially on Valentine’s Day, the biggest day of the year to celebrate chocolate. The following chocolatiers have a selection of Valentine’s gifts wide enough to accommodate all tastes (and budgets).

Lusciously decorated and tastefully boxed chocolates from Recchiuti of San Francisco.

A deep red velvet heart with Belgian selection from Leonidas Belgian Chocolates.

Outrageous “passports to chocolate heaven” from Lake Champlain Chocolates.

The Be Mine Chocolate Frog from Lake Champlain Chocolates. A great Valentine’s gift for budget watchers.

Perfectly understated and refined La Perle de Mon Coeur Valentine Assortment from Richart Paris.

Chocolat Moderne: mysteries of Love Valentine Assortement.

Predatory beauty from Christopher Norman Chocolates: truly wild, but no animals were harmed, we are assured.

One of the most understated boxes of chocolates you may find among the very best
gourmets: the Vintage Collection of NoKA is for chocolate purists. (“single-estate” chocolate).

Best known for its excruciatingly yummy truffles, Vosages fairly suggests that Valentine hearts are to come in two.

Romantic heart box with chiffon draped cover and crystal centerpiece from Godiva, one of the most familiar Belgian chocolatiers in the U.S.

If your sugar can’t eat sugar, that’s perfectly fine. She can have her hand-made chocolate and eat it too, all of it, including the box. That’s right. That bronze colored, carefully carved box is not a keeper! It’s sugar-free milk chocolate and all edible from A Beautiful Harvest.