Gallianoz chocolates for grown-ups

Your favourite childhood read was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Later, Chocolat was your kind of movie — and not because of dishy Depp either. Now, you quote from Matt Rosenblum’s Chocolate when the subject of cocoa beans crops up. Chocolate, you know now, is a pleasure for all ages.

To enjoy it to the fullest, sink your teeth into a Gallianoz chocolate. Cut through the couverture to feel the filling ooze out onto your tongue. Is it butterscotch? Or a 12-year-old whisky? Caramel? Or cashew? Walnut truffle? Or maybe coffee?

Any which way, it takes one bite for the senses to discern it’s the real thing. Gillan Divecha bases these exquisite confections on his Swiss grandmother’s secret recipes. The ingredients are imported, the emotions are all authentic Indian. No wonder he counts the King of Good Times himself among his connoisseurs.

Wrapped in colour-coded cellophane and available in all sorts of weight and packaging, they’re the perfect gift for chocaholics.

If you can bring yourself to give them away.

Gallianoz, 14/2 Rhenius Street, Richmond Town, Bangalore 560025. Tel: 9845024645. Call rightaway to place Diwali orders. Prices start from Rs 856/kg for filled chocolates, Rs 1500/kg for liquor chocolates.