Chocolate of the Day
Luisa Abram Chocolates
Dark Chocolate with Jambu Flower (bar)
Good ++ - Good +++
Weight: 1.4 oz. (40 g.) (per label) / 2.8 oz. (80 g.) in total bar
Calories: 188 calories (estimate) in 1 bar (of 2)
Cost: $14.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Caputo's, online order
Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Floral Theme Week.
Today's Dark Chocolate with Jambu Flower (bar) was made in Brazil by Familia Abram Banks Ltda. (Sao Paolo, Brazil).
Luisa Abrams is a bean-to-bar chocolate maker whose chocolates are rich with local cacao terroir nuances and Amazonian flavor inclusions. Her flavorful bars offer rare and delicious glimpses of wild cacaos--and cacao paired with local fruits, flowers, nuts/seeds that grow nearby in Brazil.
This package contained two, individually-wrapped bars. The chocolate were thoughtfully crafted with 70% Rio Tocantins wild cacao chocolate ("which has a very citrusy profile"), Amazonian cocoa butter and jambu flower. The skillful blend of all three resulted in a skillfully constructed powerhouse of nuanced and intriguing, authentic Amazon flavors.
Brazilian jambu flowers have been described as: slightly spicy, medicinal, numbing, and like a gingery blueberry with tannic fruit-like astringency. They can be found in traditional dishes in northern Brazil, and are consumed medicinally.
I found the very slightly numbing quality (earning the nickname for jambu flower as the toothache plant) was quite mild. It was similar to a milder version of the Sichuan green peppercorn's tingling quality.
Complex aroma and flavor notes for this bar included: dark chocolate; refreshing diffuse and bright (sweet-tart) fruity floral; and a complementary blend of sweet green intriguing botanical syrups, spiced with fruits (prickly pear, pineapple, guava, orange, date, fig) and hibiscus.
Texture: smooth and hearty, with the exception of one or two tiny/fine grit pieces (likely from either cacao bean nibs or jambu).
I loved the wild cacao 70% dark chocolate; the subtle warmness of the organic sugar; and the bold sweet-tart floral and fruit flavors with citrus (orange, almost kumquat), ripe guava and sweet green (green fig, green nut, sweet green/young walnuts in syrup) notes.
Ingredients: "Cocoa Mass, organic cane sugar, cocoa butter and jambu flower.", Dates*, Cacao Butter*, Bee Pollen, Rose Petals, Lavender (* Organic)
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