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The 10 Best luxury chocolate bars
From salted-caramel and award-winning flavours to the latest offering from the queen's chocolatier, these moreish bars are to die for
1. La Molina Nocciolato Gianduja hazelnut dark chocolate
ÂŁ16.49/250g, selfridges.com
Probably the most you'll ever pay for a chocolate bar, but worth it as it's completely addictive.
2. Artisan du Chocolat Orchid and Orange Blossom Dark Bar
ÂŁ3.15/45g, artisanduchocolat.com
You won't find a disappointing bar from this chocolatier, which pushes the boundaries of flavours.
3. Ottolenghi Salt Caramel and Chocolate Brittle
ÂŁ5.85/100g, ottolenghi.co.uk
This bar has only a 14-day shelf life, but the truth is that it won't last anything like that long because it's utterly moreish.
ÂŁ4.50/70g, rococochocolates.com
Even top quality white chocolate can taste too sweet, but the aromatic cardamom cuts through the sweet creaminess of this bar.
ÂŁ5.45/100g, chocolatiers.co.uk
Vietnam is not naturally associated with artisan chocolate, but the country's cocoa beans are attracting chocolatiers such as Marou. This bar is particularly punchy.
6. Chococo Heavenly Honeycomb Bar
ÂŁ8.50/125g, chococo.co.uk
Chococo crafts chocolates on Dorset's Jurassic Coast. This award-winning bar uses the flavour du jour – honeycomb.
7. Amelia Rope Pale Honey Roasted Pecan Nut & Sea Salt
ÂŁ9.95/100g, ameliarope.com
Rope's latest bar, for Fortnum & Mason, has pecans roasted in honey on top of single-origin Equadorian milk chocolate with sea salt. Yum.
8. Bettys Cru Sauvage 68% Dark Chocolate Bar
ÂŁ3.85/50g, bettys.co.uk
This bar is made from a rare variety of cocoa that grows wild in Bolivia. The beans are then slow-roasted to bring out the flavour.
9. Hotel Chocolat St Lucia Island Growers 70% Milk
ÂŁ7.50/70g, hotelchocolat.com
Hotel Chocolat is one of the few chocolatiers to grow its own cocoa. The results are to die for and this is one of its best bars yet.
ÂŁ3.50/85g, prestat.co.uk
This is the queen's chocolatier, making the quintessentially British flavour of Earl Grey in this bar, combined with a twist of lemon in milk chocolate, very apt.