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Kallari 85% single source organic chocolate

January 6, 2009 / 0 comments

Very interesting, especially comparing this to the 75% Kallari, I’m truly amazed the difference that the extra 10% makes. This is not like the 75% at all – completely different flavor spectrum, much more restrained and concentrrated. This really is a chocolate-lovers’ chocolate, but borderline too intense. The overwhelming cocoa-ness very nearly drowns out some…

Kallari 75% single source organic chocolate

January 6, 2009 / 0 comments

Wow – pleasantly surprised by this one. You get a nice coating along the sides and back of your tongue, and there’s a nice and full nutty, earthy flavor. It’s almost like eating peanut butter, where you smack the roof of your mouth, except that it’s chocolate. Five-year-old: “It tastes like peanuts.” “It’s delicious and…

Godiva 50% Dark Chocolate with Orange

January 3, 2009 / 0 comments

As soon as we tear the trademark gold foil open, we can smell the orange – yummy. What’s interesting about this one is the initial orange note is the high sweet orange, more aromatic, but then as the chocolate dissolves, you get the deeper, heartier orange flavor and mouthfeel within the chocolate. As you would…

Dagoba Single Origin 68% Organic Dark Los Rios Ecuador

January 3, 2009 / 0 comments

In stark contrast to the other Ecuador chocolate we just reviewed, here’s one with a much more interesting arrangment of flavors. Also from the Amazonian Ecuador region, this chocolate possessed more of a fruity cocoa flavor and a smoother mouthfeel. The chocolate itself was interesting in appearance – whether it was a brief exposure to…

Vintage Plantations 65% Dark Rancho San Jacintho Harvest, Ecuador

January 3, 2009 / 0 comments

We found this chocolate to be dry on the start, a little too sweet and not enough complexity on the mouthfeel. I expected a little more from this, Ecuadorian-sourced organic chocolate, but I have to be careful about this to not give the wrong impression: this is definitely an above-average chocolate, but I expected a…

Choklad Mörk Dark Chocolate

October 12, 2008 / 0 comments

Here’s a nice, solid, well-made chocolate bar to satisfy your chocolate craving, while browsing your local IKEA. Sure, we’ve done the obligatory swedish meatballs and macaroni and cheese for lunch many times with the kids. On our most recent excursion, we noticed a case (and I do mean an IKEA case – 6 bars wide,…

Ghiradelli Twilight Delight 72% dark chocolate

September 25, 2008 / 0 comments

I think we might have chewed this one up before, but given that we came into a bar (thank you, Beth, thank you so much, and thank you Stephenie Meyer…) we’ll take another stab at it. Here’s a bar that’s dark dark – as dark as the , um, breaking dawn? Whatever… Seriously, dear reader,…

Chuao Spicy Maya

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

Heaven in a bar? here it is: cocoa, cinnamon, spices, chilies perfectly blended together. Short and sweet: perfect sweetness, creamy chocolate, complex character from cinnamon and chilies. These guys from Carlsbad, California make a damn good chocolate. We picked this up in Wegman’s, where it was significantly higher in price than other bars, but I…

Chocolove: Chilies & Cherries in Dark Chocolate

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

This is helluva nice bar – great balance between the chili peppers and the intensely sweet cherries. If you’ll recall, these guys from Boulder made an Almonds & Cherries bar we reviewed (and liked), so our first question is: are these Michigan cherries? Or they from somewhere else? Never mind the cherries – it’s the…

Hachez Cocoa d’Arriba – Strawberry & Pepper

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

Strawberry and pepper? German dark chocolate? Sounded interesting. Using Ecuadorian dark chocolate, this is a mildly bitter, dark, not overly sweet chocolate. Very smooth, full-flavored, bittersweet chocolate. We think while the pepper is just about right, the strawberry could stand to be a little more prominent. As it is, it has just a hint of…

Wegman’s 72% dark chocolate

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

It’s dry; not a great mouthfeel. Tastes waxy or clumpy as it melts in your mouth. Basically, an average bar; nothing outstanding or noteworthy, which is a bit surprising to us über-consumers who sway towards Wegman’s and its ilk for above-average food. Two-year-old hands it back and says “no, do you have another one?” Four-year-old…

Dove Originals: Ghana (another “rich, dark”)

September 9, 2008 / 0 comments

We’ve been a bit remiss lately – I know for a fact that there were at least three other chocolate bars lying around our high-tech chocolate FATLab (facility for analysis and testing laboratory), including a caramel-filled dark chocolate that was yummy… but that was two weeks ago, and these chocolate bars have a nasty habit…

Russell Stover Urban Chocolates

September 9, 2008 / 0 comments

While hunting around our local Wal-Mart, I stumbled across these in a discount endcap. I realize the notion of a discount rack in Wal-Mart should raise some red flags, but given this item’s name, and that was a a buck or two (I can’t remember the price anymore), I decided it was worth investigating. Worth…

Ethel M Mocha Cappuccino in dark chocolate

June 15, 2008 / 0 comments

From Ethel M in Vegas we picked up a small chocolate bar to try. For those who don’t recognize the brand, Ethel’s is to M&M’s as Lexus is to Toyota. Whenever in Vegas, we’ll try to pick up some of their truffles – they have some really wonderful alcoholic-inspired ones, like the margarita and the…

Trader Joe’s swiss 71% dark chocolate

June 15, 2008 / 0 comments

Like Costco, Trader Joe’s is a supplier of all good things, in our view. So how could you go wrong with a 71% cocao dark chocolate bar from them? Especially when it’s made in Switzerland, with fairly traded cocao beans? Well, the answer is you can’t. This a good, solid, smooth bar with a great…

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