Chocolate of the Day
Spinnaker Chocolate
70% Colombia Belize Blend (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28.3 g.) / 2 oz. (57 g.) in total bar
Calories: 120 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $12.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Spinnaker Chocolate, online order
Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Colombia Theme Week.
Today's 70% Colombia and Belize Blend (Batch 318.2) (bar) was made from bean-to-bar by Spinnaker Chocolate (Seattle, WA).
Aroma notes for this two-ingredient bar included: sweet dark chocolate (tart, ganache); tart, sweet fruit and spice (apple and berry cider); and faint coffee.
Texture: rich and chocolate-y with a very slight fruit (granular) astringency. (This could have also been a result of shorter conch time(s) to maximize/preserve the inherent fruit/berry flavors in the cacao.)
Flavor notes included: dark chocolate (torte, ganache, fudge cake) and tart sweet berries (ripe blackberry, olallieberry*, black raspberry and ripe blueberry cobbler).
I appreciated the range of rich, sweet, fruit-forward, berry dessert and faint, crisp apple cider flavors that the makers were able to showcase with just two ingredients. It was the perfect chocolate for late summer/early fall.
Maker's tasting notes: "...fudgy and fruity combo of chocolate covered berries..."
Ingredients: Cacao, Organic Cane Sugar
Allergen-related information: "Processed in a facility that uses milk powder and nuts."
* The following definition for olallieberry (a cross between a blackberry and a European red raspberry) perfectly described today's multi-berry taste. "Olallie" is a word for berry that was used by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. So you're actually saying "berry berry."
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