Chocolate of the Day
Kasama Chocolate
Forest & Sea - Special Release 65% Dark Chocolate with Rosemary and Sea Salt (bar)
Good +++
Weight: .97 oz. (27.5 g.) / 1.94 oz. (55 g.) in total bar
Calories: 160.5 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $14.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Chocolate Covered, San Francisco, CA
Greetings, and welcome to Day #7 of Chocolate and The Sea Theme Week.
Today's "Forest & Sea" - Special Release (Batch 14) 65% Dark Chocolate with Rosemary and Sea Salt (bar) was from Kasama Chocolate (Vancouver, BC, Canada).
This bean-to-bar maker offers a variety of single origin chocolates (many made with cacao from the Philippines); some have flavor inclusions/infusions.
I was excited to experience this chocolate that was inspired by forests and the sea--two of my favorite places to be.
Aroma notes included: dark chocolate and sweet herbal, clean piney forest (rosemary).
Texture: I could barely feel the tiny bits of rosemary sea salt in the smooth dark chocolate; but I could taste them.
Flavor notes included: smooth, flavorful dark chocolate, redolent rosemary, and satisfying crystalline flecks of sea salt. This bar also had a wonderful, subtle long finish, with diminishing fresh, fragrant rosemary. That attenuation allowed space for some faint, fleeting, fruit/floral to come to the fore.
The sugar and salt levels felt just right.
I really enjoyed this outdoors-inspired blend. I live near pine trees and palm trees, near the brackish San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean, and grow heaps of rosemary in my yard. So this well-executed Forest & Sea chocolate bar made me feel deeply at home.
Ingredients: Cacao Beans, Unrefined Cane Sugar*, Cacao Butter*, Rosemary*, Sea Salt (* = Organic)
Allergen-related information: "Made in a facility that contains nuts."
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