Chocolate of the Day
Castronovo Chocolate
Awajun Women, Peru 70% Rainforest Cacao (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.1 oz. (31 g.) / 2.2 oz. (62 g.) in total bar
Calories: 180 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $14.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Castronovo Chocolate, online order
Welcome to Day #12 of Chocolate and Peru Theme Week.
Today's Awajun Women, Peru 70% Rainforest Cacao (Batch #1351) (bar) was from Castronovo Chocolate (Stuart, FL).
Castronovo Chocolate maker Denise Castronovo sourced Peruvian cacao beans to make this bar from a cacao cooperative of indigenous women from the Awajun and Huambisa communities in the Amazon rainforest.
Aroma notes included: dark chocolate (warm cocoa, drinking chocolate)
This 70% bar broke with a well-tempered snap, and had a uniform, smooth, almost creamy, pleasing texture.
Flavor notes included: smooth dark chocolate, with very faint floral/perfume/cardboard and barely detectable fruit (dried fruit (very subtle date), caramelized fruit) and nut (almond) notes. Pleasant, sweet finish with very light caramel.
Maker's tasting notes: "...laced with natural sweet flavors of almond, vanilla and caramel."
Ingredients: cocoa beans*, cane sugar*, cocoa butter* (*organic ingredients)
Allergen-related information: Made in a nut-free facility that uses milk and wheat.
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