South Tyrolean talent: Former pastry chef turns to chocolate
Italian chef uses local ingredients to create specialty chocolate bars indicative of the beauty and bounty surround the Dolomites.
Depending on which route you take, the drive to the village of Sarnthein in Italy's South Tyrol region can be breathtaking or well, even more breathtaking. Turnbacks, hairpin turns, verdant valleys and the Dolomites flexing their craggy carbonate can mesmerize passenger and driver alike.
But there's something else in Sarnthein itself that's mesmerizing — the chocolate.Of course, the trek down to Toni Oberholler's shop, located in the basement of his townhome, also has a few turns, albeit not as treacherous as those on the drive to Sarnthein.