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Chocolove Orange Peel in Dark Chocolate

Chris Urban — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:32:47 +0000

Compared to the Frey orange dark chocolate, the orange flavor is much more even and subtle, but the freeze-dried orange peel itself is distracting. The chocolate is nice – the Belgian dark chocolate is smoother, more buttery, than the swiss counterpart – but it’s just those damn peels that get in the way.

Frey Bouquet d’Oranges

Chris Urban — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:25:08 +0000

We’ve had Frey before – generally we’ve tried to find chocolates with pepper – but here we find some orange. We don’t like it so much. The orange powder tastes a bit crystallized, but we wonder if it’s intentional. We’re also wondered if this might be happen to be a bit stale.
The chocolate part – Swiss chocolate – is fine, it’s okay.

Godiva 50% Dark Chocolate with Orange

Chris Urban — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:33:41 +0000

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 expect from a Godiva gourmet bar, this is superbly smooth and almost too rich; this is expected from a 50% dark chocolate. You get the smoothness like a milk chocolate, and the deeper bass notes of a dark chocolate, and all of this enveloped in orange rind flavor.
Of course, I’d get this one again, but this is really an indulgent chocolate, almost too sweet to have too often.