Recchiuti chocolate peanut-butter cup: baaaad

I love the more traditional chocolates that they make. Even the ones that are creative-traditional like the rose caramel, which is just wonderful.
Just tried the peanut-butter cups, which my husband and I couldn't even eat half of, they were salty in the extreme. Course salt on top, which theoretically and easthetically is a good idea, but in the mouth is just wrong, and way way overloaded with salt in the filling with the peanuts. Like hurt your mouth too-much-salt.

Recently had the Valentine's small box selection, which, also, we couldn't finish: overwhelmingly strong flavors, as if someone weren't tasting the batches of flavored ganache and caramel. They were almost acrid tasting. The lavender, for instance, and the lemon verbena, too - it was actually one of the most disappointing and awful boxes of chocolates I've almost ever had. Here and there I would expect to not love something, but all of these were actually just plain bad.
oh, and the chocolate bars: hazelnut praline (I think it's called?) brilliant. The almond one, which seems a take on Toblerone with the bits of honey and almond nougat, very disappointing as well - about every 3 squares or so does one get a little crunchy bit of something.
Am I the only one to find these inconsistencies in this otherwise really good chocolate maker?
mimi

Wow, I completely disagree.--unless he has changed the recipe recently, or there are quality variations between batches. My boyfriend and I love the peanut butter cups. They are rich, sweet and (not overly) salty, and can be savored over a couple of days (by me, at least) since they are so large.

I find them one of the most economical ways to enjoy Recchiutti's chocolate.

I could not agree more. The saltiness of the peanut butter cups has caused me to stay away from all of his peanut butter items. Eine Schade, if you ask me.

I just tried them this weekend and they were a revelatory experience for me. I loved the way the saltiness enhanced the flavor of peanuts, for once unobscured by milk powder and sugar -- straight up peanut butter coated with the most amazingly uncloying milk chocolate (which I usually detest) I've ever had. I considered begging him to make these with dark chocolate -- but imho he doesn't need to change a thing.

It has got to be from a different batch.
There is no way anyone would ever describe what I had as revelatory except in a revolting way.
oh well, that's the downside of what we love about artisan produced foods - consistency is occasionally what falters.

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