A chocolate sommelier that answers from a real catalog

XOCOA profiles 2,128 craft chocolate bars and recommends from that catalog rather than from generic advice. Describe what you are after in your own words, a bar for someone who finds dark chocolate bitter, something to follow a heavy meal, a gift for a person who already knows their cacao, and the sommelier narrows the catalog to a handful of specific bars and explains why each one fits.

Every bar in the catalog is profiled across roughly forty sensory and practical attributes: cacao percentage, intensity, acidity, bitterness, sweetness, aroma family, and pairings. The recommendations are assembled from that data, not improvised, if a bar is not in the catalog, the sommelier will not suggest it.

XOCOA does not sell chocolate. It is a discovery layer for people who want to find the right bar among thousands, and for makers whose work is hard to find precisely because it is small. You can browse the catalog by origin, read the guides on bean-to-bar production and single-origin chocolate, or simply ask the sommelier above.

Answers are given in the language you use. English, French or Spanish.