Chocolate of the Day
Guido Gobino
Indonesia 80% pieces/disks
Good + - Good ++
Weight: .88 oz. (25 g.) / 4.41 oz. (125 g.) total package of 25 pieces
Calories: 136 calories (estimate) in 5 pieces
Cost: $18.50 for 1 package of 25 pieces
Purchased from: Bar and Cocoa, online order
Welcome to Day #7 of Chocolate and Indonesia Theme Week.
Today's Indonesia (single origin) 80% individually-wrapped chocolates were from Guido Gobino (Turin, Italy).
Happily, this family-owned, bean-to-bar maker offers smaller, high-percentage cacao, single origin, chocolates from different countries--including today's small (5 g.) disks made with Indonesian cacao. (Not all small chocolates are sugary, rather bland confections.)
Aroma notes for these individually-wrapped small disks included: aromatic dark chocolate; fruit (dark cherry); and woodsy earth (very faint, balanced peat/loam).
Texture: well-tempered (broke with a snap); smooth melt and mouthfeel--with a bit of faintly crunchy, ground cacao nib/bean fibers; and an almost invisible astringency in one or two bites (that may show up when you combine this chocolate with other foods).
Flavor notes included: rich, extra dark chocolate; very faint, dark/dried fruit (cherry); very faint, fleeting butter; very faint woodsy earth (peat, loam); and very faint, fleeting lemony-green herb (oxalis).
These chocolates were enjoyably complex, well-executed, robust and dark, and were not too sweet. (Thank you!)
Bar and Cocoa tasting notes: "...fragrant and intense, with notes of dried fruit and cocoa"
Ingredients: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter; Cocoa 80% minimum
Allergen-related information: May contain traces of milk, hazelnuts, soy
