Amedei is a premium artisan
chocolate
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods.
Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...
manufacturing company located in
Pontedera in the
Tuscany
Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence.
Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...
region of
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
, considered to be one of the finest chocolate producers in the world.
Their products range from chocolate bars to
truffles and
pralines. Their award-winning chocolate bars use single-origin and single-variety
cocoa beans
The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa () or cacao (), is the dried and fully fermented seed of ''Theobroma cacao'', the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees ...
. One of their products,
Amedei Porcelana, is known as the world's most expensive chocolate.
Good Times
World's Most Expensive Ice Cream — Golden Opulence Sundae
They obtain their cocoa from the
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
n region of
Chuao. Amedei Porcelana was awarded Gold in the category Best Bean to Bar in 2005 and in 2006 by th
Academy of Chocolate although as this is an annual award, the Academy picks a new winning chocolate bar every year.
Food and Wine.
See also
* List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers
A bean-to-bar company produces chocolate by processing cocoa beans into a product in-house, rather than melting chocolate from another manufacturer. They operate on a small scale (generally producing batches of chocolate smaller than ) without lec ...
References
External links
Amedei
Italian brands
Italian chocolate companies
Companies based in Tuscany
Italian companies established in 1990
European chocolate bars
Pontedera
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