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Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates to Attend Family Chocolate Festival

Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates to Attend Northeast Family Chocolate Festival   Plattsburgh, NY – March 26, 2009 –ChocolateGourmet Chocolates, an Internet-based gourmet chocolate retailer, will be participating in the5th Annual Northeast Family Chocolate Festival from 10 am – 5 pm on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at the Washington Avenue Armory&Sports; Arena in Albany, NY. Proceeds from the festival will benefit The Addictions Care Center of Albany, Inc. (ACCA), a community-based nonprofit substance abuse treatment and prevention education provider. For specific details, visitwww.theacca.net/events.   David Pearce, President of Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates said, “We are very excited to be part of this year’s Family Chocolate Festival. I have seen firsthand the effects of substance abuse and alcoholism and what it can do to individuals and their families. Being part of the5th Annual Northeast Family Chocolate Festivalis a great way to lend a helping hand to help people struggling to overcomethe effects of alcoholism and substance abuse.”   Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates is eager to work in conjunction with not-for-profit organizations by offering fund-raising opportunities. Interested parties shouldcontact David Pearcefor additional details.   The Northeast Family Chocolate Festival is the primary fundraiser for The Addictions Care Center of Albany, Inc (ACCA). For over 40 years, ACCA has improved the lives of men, women, families and children healing from the effects of alcoholism and substance abuse. Through intensive, proactive educational programs aimed at preventing substance abuse and through state-of-the-art treatment services customized to individual needs, ACCA helps thousands of people overcome addictions and touches the lives of more than 6,000 Capital Region residents every year.    Chocolate Gourmet Chocolatesis an Internet-based gourmet chocolate retailer featuring gourmetchocolate bars,chocolate truffles,chocolate confections, and Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates’ specialty,chocolate samplers. Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates offers gourmet chocolates from top regional gourmet chocolate makers such asChocolove,Chocolate Bar NYC,Garrison Confections,Knipschildt Chocolatier,Lake Champlain ChocolatesandPerfection Chocolateswith free Priority Mail shipping available on all orders within the continental US. ###

About Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates

Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates was founded by a husband and wife team who love chocolate. Michele, otherwise known as “Chocolate”, developed a taste for gourmet chocolates after she married her husband David, otherwise known as “The Gourmet”, who has had a 35-year love affair with chocolate.As they travelled across the country in search of regional gourmet chocolate manufacturers, they were fortunate enough to stumble upon some exceptional chocolate makers that were virtually unknown outside their regional marketplace. This gaveChocolateandThe Gourmetan idea: Why not create a website that features these lesser-known gourmet chocolate makers to help other chocolate lovers get the opportunity to experience the fine specialty chocolates that they would most likely never have known about.The philosophy is simple:Find the best gourmet chocolates made in America.Prepare sampler packages from the best in show from each chocolate category.Treat people to a wide variety of gourmet chocolate offerings.Let people decide on their own which ones they like best. From this idea,Chocolate Gourmet Chocolateswas born.The process moved forward with careful deliberation.The first task was to narrow down the product offerings to a manageable number of categories.In the end, we decided to feature five categories:Chocolate Bars,Chocolate Truffles,Chocolate Confections,Boxed Chocolatesand our Chocolate Gourmet Chocolates specialty,Chocolate Samplers. Next, and more challenging, came the task of deciding which chocolate makers represented the best in class for each category.There are literally hundreds of small, specialty gourmet chocolate makers across the country.Choosing the best in class was no easy feat.ChocolateandThe Gourmetspent months sifting through potential suppliers, sampling their products and narrowing down their list.Their criteria were simple, to make the first cut, they had to be in unanimous agreement about the quality of each sample.From this exercise, theChocolateandThe Gourmetseals of approval were developed. To make the second cut, each finalist needed to prove they could manufacture their products with a nearly perfect level of consistency time after time, batch after batch, month after month.Several contenders fell out of the race at this point due to variable quality over time; others were eliminated from the launch group because of minor variations.None-the-less,ChocolateandThe Gourmetate a lot of chocolate and had to make some very tough decision. After nearly 12 months of planning, preparing, sampling, designing, negotiating and praying, theChocolate Gourmet Chocolateswebsite was launched.If you lovechocolateand enjoy samplinggourmet chocolatesfrom across the country, we hope you give us a try.If you like what you get (good customer service and great gourmet chocolates), tell your friends about us!It is our goal to keep our customers coming back until they have tried every gourmet chocolate we have available.Once you’ve accomplished that feat, we hope you continue to order your favorites from us for yourself or as gifts for others.