The Best European Chocolate 2026 | Depetris Riccardo - Monviso Purple Blueberry
The Best European Chocolate 2026 | Depetris Riccardo - Monviso Purple Blueberry
Depetris Riccardo

Depetris Riccardo - Monviso Purple Blueberry

75 g Fine White Chocolate
Regular price $11.70 USD
Sale price $11.70 USD Regular price
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Ranked in the Top 100 Chocolates in the World.

Origin & Craftsmanship

This bar is part of Depetris Riccardo / Depetris…i Ciculaté's landmark Cioccolato del Monviso line, made at the foot of Mount Monviso in Revello, Piedmont — a UNESCO World Heritage site and the symbolic "King of Stone" of the Po Valley. Riccardo Depetris is a master chocolatier and pastry chef who combines deep Piedmontese tradition with a bean-to-bar approach, hand-selecting raw materials and crafting everything in-house using artisanal systems that preserve the full organoleptic character of the cacao. The Monviso range is his tribute to the mountain and the landscape it defines.

Flavor Profile

An unconventional white chocolate base — made with natural raw cocoa butter and cane sugar, which gives it a warmer, more complex colour than standard white chocolate — layered with hand-picked local violets and blueberries. Expect floral top notes, fresh fruit brightness, and a creamy, round finish. The fruit and flower inclusions are sourced locally from the Monviso foothills, lending genuine terroir and seasonality to each bar.

Award & Recognition

The Viola Mirtillo earned Gold + Special Prize for Local Ingredients + Special for Eclectic Flavours at the 2026 International Chocolate Awards (European Bean-to-Bar Competition) — and achieved the highest score of the entire competition at 94.2 points, making it the most decorated bar across all categories that year.

Tasting & Pairing Guide

 Let the bar come to room temperature before tasting to allow the floral and berry notes to open fully. The violet and blueberry work well alongside a light sparkling rosé or a hibiscus herbal tea for a non-alcoholic match that echoes the floral character. For a textural contrast, pair with fresh ricotta and honey — the creaminess amplifies the cocoa butter base, while the honey bridges the fruit and floral notes.

Summary

The Monviso Purple Blueberry by Depetris Riccardo is the highest-scoring chocolate bar in the world in 2026 — a technically extraordinary, deeply local white chocolate that captures the alpine landscape of Piedmont in hand-picked ingredients and artisanal craft. For those who believe white chocolate can be as complex as any single-

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Contains Dairy

Riccardo Depetris grew up inside a pastry workshop — his parents have been operating in confectionery in the Cuneo province of Piedmont for over four decades. That apprenticeship never really ended. He trained formally at hotel school, then spent years travelling through France, Spain, Germany and the United States absorbing new markets, techniques and flavour sensibilities before returning to Revello to run the historic Pasticceria Del Viale — Depetris i Ciculaté with his brother Mario.
Riccardo's craft is rooted in Piedmontese tradition: the region's famed hazelnuts, the peaches of Revello, the local herbs and mountain fruits that grow at the foot of Monviso. But his approach is anything but backward-looking. He was among the first Italian chocolatiers to work bean-to-bar at an artisan scale, believing that handcrafted processing at each stage best preserves the organoleptic character of exceptional cacao.
The Cioccolato del Monviso line was born out of a long research project — a tribute to Mount Monviso, the solitary limestone peak that rises above the Po Valley and is the defining symbol of Piedmont. Each bar in the range is a dialogue between the mountain's altitude and geography and the tropical origins of cacao.
The Viola Mirtillo — with its hand-picked local violets and wild blueberries — is that dialogue at its most precise: an entire alpine landscape, compressed into a single bar.
Riccardo is also a teacher at ICIF and multiple hotel institutes across Piedmont, a technical consultant to chocolate machinery manufacturer Selmi, and a multi-awarded competitor at the International Chocolate Awards, where his work has accumulated gold, silver and bronze medals across more than a decade of competition.

Peruvian natural cocoa butter, sugar, Po Valley blueberries, Piedmontese milk powder, Alpine violets from Monviso, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin

Our chocolate makers proudly refrain from using any artificial stabilizers or preservatives in their products, making their creations more temperature-sensitive compared to other premium chocolates.

To ensure the optimal taste experience, it's advisable to store our chocolates in a cool, dry place where the temperature hovers between 16°C and 18°C. Please refrain from refrigerating our chocolates, as this may cause sugar crystallization due to increased humidity, altering their texture and flavor.

On the contrary, if stored in excessively high temperatures, cocoa butter may separate and form a white film on the chocolate's surface. This loss of cocoa butter can lead to the chocolate drying out and, consequently, a potential alteration in flavor. Your mindful storage practices will help preserve the integrity of our delectable chocolates.