I first became aware of Portland’s Moonstruck Chocolate, and Master Chocolatier Julian Rose, a couple of months ago, when I was doing a post on Fortunato No. 4, a rare, and newly re-discovered chocolate from Peru.

I had been given a sample of it, and wanted to find out “who had it” and what they were doing with it.

What Julian Rose and Moonstruck are doing with it is, making the most fabulous tumbled dark chocolate beans, essentially the Pure Nacional cacao beans tumbled in a coating of their own chocolate and a shining “secret” golden glaze. [Read more…]