Saturday, January 25, 2025

Aelan - Dark Chocolate Single Origin from Vanuatu 70% Cacao (bar) - Jan. 25, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

Aelan Chocolate Makers
Dark Chocolate Single Origin from Vanuatu 70% Cacao (bar) 
Good ++
Weight: .795 oz. (22.5 g.) / 1.59 oz. (45 g.) in total bar
Calories: 135 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: N/A - gift from friend (thank you Toni!)
Purchased from: N/A gift 

Welcome to Day #4 of Chocolate and Vanuatu Theme Week.

Today's Dark Chocolate Single Origin from Vanuatu 70% Cacao (bar) was from Aelan Chocolate Makers (Port Vila, Vanuatu). 

Fun facts on the label: "Aelan is (the word for) "island" in Bisiama, Vanuatu language." The company sources cacao from the islands of Vanuatu. And the cacao used in today's bar was sourced from the island of Malo.

Aroma and flavor notes included: pleasing dark chocolate with very diffuse red fruit (cherry, berry); very faint sweet green; and faint coffee/latte notes.

Texture: relatively normal dark chocolate texture, but minor dry/powdery* mouthfeel in the middle that lasted until the chocolate finished melting in my mouth. 

I enjoyed the pleasant rich chocolate-y flavor(s) in this two-ingredient bar.

Ingredients: Cacao beans, Sugar

Allergen-related information: May contain traces of nuts.

*This subtle powdery-like "dryness" could have been caused by the cacao (tannins), the age of the bar, tempering or storage conditions or heating/cooling that occurred in transit. (The chocolate looked fine, broke with a snap, and had no obvious white/bloom). It also had neither the puckery (unripe persimmon-type) astringengy nor the chalky mouthfeel that might be present in extreme examples. 


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