Chocolate of the Day: Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat
Dak Lak 70 percent dark chocolate bar
Good ++ - Very Good
Weight: 1.4 oz. (40 g.) / 2.8 oz. (80 g.) in total bar
Calories: 242 calories (per label) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $9.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Cacao at The Heathman, Portland, OR
Welcome to Day #7 of Chocolate and Vietnam Theme Week.
Today's beautifully packaged Dak Lak 70 percent dark chocolate bar from Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat (Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon) was made from cacao grown in Vietnam.
It had a subtle chocolate aroma with honey, light spice and faint green forest/wood and fruit notes.
And the flavors I tasted ranged from chocolate cake to hints of tart sweet red fruit headed toward sweet berries/cranberries/cherries.
As is often the case with craft chocolate, I tasted this bar three different times today and each time I picked up a few different flavor notes.
Hats off to the maker for carefully capturing and cultivating the flavor profile of these cacao beans from the Dak Lak province, in central Vietnam.**Dak Lak is in the Central Highlands, in an area where coffee, pepper and tea are also grown. It is north of Lam Dong province and most other cacao-growing regions that are further south (closer to the Mekong River Delta).
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