Composition: 71% Organic Dark Chocolate.
Region of Origin and Production: Caribbean. The company itself is British.
Price: About $4-4.50 for a 3 oz./85g bar.
As a full disclosure, this is a chocolate that was nearing its best-to-eat-by date, and it had just a slight bit of wear on it in one corner, with the cocoa rubbed off....
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All you foodies out there will be glad to know that I’m in the process of prepping a new Chicago section to my website. Though I’ve been focusing mostly on the Boston food scene lately, I recently had the chance to sneak out to Chicago for a week-long visit. While I didn’t get through everything I wanted, I did...
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Composition: 75% Dark Chocolate Bar.
Country of Production: France.
Price: About $8-$9 for a bar.
Producer’s Notes: Powerful and heady nose, aromas of burnt butter and liquorice, bitter, persistent on the palate.
Unfortunately, this bar is discolored, as most of my latest bars have been. It must be a result of improper...
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Pralus “Le 100%” Bar.
100% Pure Chocolate Bar.
About $8-$9 for 100g.
I’ve tried chocolates from all over the world, of all different styles and intensities. Never, however, have I had the chance to taste pure chocolate. And there’s a good reason for that: Pure cocoa is unbearably bitter. And yet, Pralus has quite daringly...
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Pralus 75% Cuba Bar.
75% Dark Chocolate Bar.
About $8-$9 for 100g.
As all of Pralus’s bars, the Pralus Cuba Bar comes in a simple, but tasteful, paper wrapper that displays much more information than you’d typically find on a chocolate bar. Not only does it show you the type of cocoa and its country of origin, it maps the...
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Composition: 60% Dark Chocolate.
Price: About $4-$5 for a 3 oz./85g bar.
Organic Dark Chocolate.
The presentation of this bar is lovely, though simple. It comes wrapped in a colorful packet depicting a rainbow of cocoa pods , hanging from a tree in the forest and surrounded by vines and leaves. The Grenada Chocolate Company gives...
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Dagoba New Moon Bar.
74% Organic Dark Chocolate Bar.
$3.20 for 2 oz. (56 g).
Dagoba is another premium organic chocolatier, making it an especially ripe target for criticism. I’ve never been a fan of the idea of “organic chocolate”—typically, “organic” just translates into double prices for half the...
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Producer: Divine Chocolate.
Region of Production: United Kingdom.
Price: About $4-$5 for 100g.
The wrapper is cheap but artistic, overloaded with a swirling design of multifarious colors. As for the bar, it’s polka-dotted all over with dehydrated strawberries. While the bar is smooth to the touch (i.e. strawberries don’t jut...
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70% Cocoa Flavored Dark Chocolate Bar.
$4 for 3 oz. (84 g).
Organic Chocolate.
I’ve returned to yet another producer of organic chocolate, ironic given how much I dislike organic chocolate. While Theo doesn’t really change any of my thoughts on organic chocolate, I have to admit it’s not half bad, especially for the...
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Ingredients: 64% Dark Chocolate, Sea Salt, Roasted Peanut, Nougat, and Caramel.
Producer: Zingerman’s Bakery.
Price: $6.00 at Zingerman’s site.
This is a gourmet take on a candy bar, and Zingerman’s Bakery sure hits the nail on the head. The Zzang! Original has a very Snickers like flavor to it, with roasted peanuts and...
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