Chocolate of the Day
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company
Dark Chocolate Strawberry Champagne Truffle 54% Cocoa (bar)
Good + - Good ++
Weight: 1.16 oz. (33 g.) / 3.5 oz. (99 g.) in total bar
Calories: 150 calories in 1/3 bar
Cost: $6.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Andronico's Community Market, Los Altos, CA
Welcome to Day #9 of Chocolate and France Theme Week, and Day #1 of Chocolate and Fruits Theme Week. This is the second of two bars featured today. (See previous post for a short write-up on Valrhona's 70% Guanaja dark chocolate.)
Today's Dark Chocolate Strawberry Champagne Truffle 54% Cocoa (bar) was from Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company (St. Louis, MO).
Strawberries may not have been native to France; but, like chocolate, strawberries were taken to a new level there. The French and Swiss helped perfect milk chocolate, and the modern strawberry was cultivated in Brittany France (a hybrid two "New World" strawberries from the Americas) in the 1750s. Champagne was the third element in this bar. This sparkling wine is unique to a growing region in northeastern France.
Put chocolate, strawberries and Champagne together and you have the makings of a romantic and/or a special occasion.
Aroma and flavor notes for today's filled bar included: sweet, dark chocolate; slightly fermented red berry (strawberry) and white wine grapes/white raisins.
Texture: soft, almost creamy, smooth dark chocolate, that surrounded a thin layer of sweet, slightly jammy, red strawberry fruit.
I enjoyed trying this celebratory, upbeat chocolate.
Ingredients: Dark Chocolate (Cane Sugar, Chocolate Liquor - Processed with Alkali, Cocoa Butter, Milk Fat, Soy Lecithin - an Emulsifier, Vanilla Extract), Cane Sugar, Corn Syrup, White Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk, Non-Fat Dry Milk, Milk Fat, Soy Lecithin (am Emulsifier) and Natural Vanilla Flavor), Heavy Cream (Cream (milk) and Carageenan), Whey Powder, Natural Flavor, Marc De Champagne, Strawberry Puree, Fruit Juice, Natural Colors from Fruits and Vegetables, Invertase
Allergen-related information: "Contains: Milk, Soy" "Products have been manufactured on shared equipment that processes Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Egg, Soy, Dairy and Wheat products. Contains bioengineered ingredients."
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