Chocolate of the Day
Maison Vietnam Marou
Happy Holidays with Merry Cacao Dark Milk Chocolate 48% & Rum Raisin (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.13 oz. (32 g.) / 2.8 oz. (80 g.) in total bar
Calories: 187 calories in 32 g. serving of bar
Cost: $15.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Bar & Cacao, online order
Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate & Vietnam Theme Week; and Day #1 of Chocolate & France Theme Week.
Today's Happy Holidays with Merry Cacao Dark Milk Chocolate 48% & Rum Raisin (bar) was from Maison Vietnam Marou (Vietnam); and Imported by A. Priori Specialty Food (Salt Lake City, UT).
I can thank France for today's bar. French colonists are credited with bringing cacao to Vietnam in the 1800s (although the Spanish introduced many new world foods to Asia before then).
However, there were obstacles to overcome. Crops from Europe and the Americas (notably coffee) experienced greater success than cacao. (Later, the Vietnam War destroyed many cacao trees and other crops.)
Happily, the global growth of the craft chocolate movement in the early 2000s launched many new global ventures. French chocolate makers/pioneers Samuel Maruta and Vincent Mourou breathed life into single origin Vietnam chocolate production when they founded Marou Chocolate in Vietnam in 2011.
Aroma notes for today's rum raisin chocolate (a blend of New and Old world traditions) included: dark milk chocolate, fruit (currant, raisin) and very faint (likely imagined) warm spices.
Texture: smooth and relatively creamy, with bits of rum-soaked dried fruit (raisins).
Flavor notes included: creamy dark milk chocolate. (It was darker, but smoother than many dark milk chocolates.) The creamy dark milk chocolate with the additional warmth from the bits of rum-soaked raisins made this bar even more appealing in the cooler weather.
Ingredients: Dark milk chocolate 48% (cacao nibs, cane sugar, whole milk powder, cacao butter (90%), rum (5%), raisins (5%)
Allergen-related information: "Contains Milk. Manufactured in a facility that also processes: wheat, milk, eggs, peanuts, coconut"
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