William Curley spiced port truffles
110g, £12.50
The winning truffle: a pleasingly shaped chocolate with velvety coating gives way to rich creamy ganache with a just a suggestion of port. Good depth of flavour and unctuous texture
★★★★
Rococo round Box No.1 with mixed chocolates and truffles
200g, £25
The truffles come as part of a creams / ganaches selection - nice to have a choice of flavours. A middling truffle, decent milk chocolate coating with a good consistency of filling (not one if you don't like your truffles on the sweet side).
★★★
Bettys Cru Sauvage truffles
130g, £17.50
A good bitter hit from the cocoa powder coating. The ganache inside has a buttery toffee flavour. Pleasant, if slightly lacking in oomph.
★★★
Chococo melting milk chocolate vanilla truffles
100g, £10.25
Pleasant if you favour truffles on the sweet and mild side. Good texture and nice chocolate curls on the outside which melt in the mouth along with the filling.
★★★
Artisan du chocolat assorted truffles
200g, £20
The truffles are good with a real bittersweet edge (some thought the filling more moussey than truffley), but the fancy box opens to reveal the contents in a plastic bag.
★★★
Paul A Young mulled wine truffles
Box of nine truffles, £15
Pretty appearance with Jackson Pollock-style splashes of colour but we expected more of a spicy flavour hit. Smooth gooey filling which might be a bit runny for some.
★★★
Booja Booja gourmet truffle collection
237g, £14.99
Nice chocolate totally overpowered by raw booze, not for eating around any naked flames. If you like a boozy truffle, you'll be happy with these.
★★
BitterSweet Chocolates hedgerow collection
280g, £18.50
Given the enticing names - wild damson and whisky; blackberry vodka - there was a disappointing lack of flavour. Lovely chocolate covering and smooth ganache but too subtle for a Christmas truffle.
★★
Montezuma's Christmas truffle box
180g, £11.99
The exterior is of good quality dark chocolate, but overly thick and hard with only a small drop of caramel inside. Truffle it ain't.
★★
Sainsbury's Taste the Difference belgian milk chocolate flaked truffle
150g, £2.99
These taste sweet and milky in comparison to some of the posher truffles on offer, but a good cheap and cheerful truffle.
★★
Godiva limited edition truffles
6 truffles, £9.50
On the large side. Also on the sickly sweet side. They don't really look the part, being rolled in nuts, covered in coconut etc. Not overly truffley either, more of a nut paste covered in chocolate. Overpriced.
★★
Tesco Finest Marc de Champagne truffles
170g, £5
Walnut-sized, covered in too much icing sugar, too sweet and not much flavour. More of a caramel filled chocolate than truffle.
★
