Chocolate of the Day
Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat
Ca Phe Sua Vietnamese Coffee Milk Chocolate 44% (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .8 oz. (24 g.) in total bar
Calories: 145 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $3.17 (sale) for 1 bar
Purchased from: Whole Foods Market, Los Altos, CA
Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and France Theme Week.
Today's Ca Phe Sua Vietnamese Coffee Milk Chocolate 44% (bar) was made by Marou Chocolate in Vietnam.
What's the French connection? Marou was founded in 2011 by two Frenchmen, Samuel Maruta and Vincent Mourou. Also, a French missionary is credited with having first brought coffee to Vietnam in 1857; and coffee became a significant crop under French colonial rule. (Vietnam still produces 40% of the world's Robusta coffee beans.)
Aroma notes included: fragrant coffee/mocha.
This sweet, milky dark chocolate bar just the right amount of quality coffee (Robusta from Vietnam); very faint warm spice (cardamom, cinnamon); and barely detectable, diffuse, dried fruit (cacao pulp, sweet, mild kumquat + tamarind) notes.
What did I like? The smaller size was great. It was as satisfying as a small cup of espresso and milk. No need for more. I also liked that the coffee was incorporated into the chocolate. (I did not miss the coffee grit.) And I appreciated the short list of quality ingredients.
Ingredients: Cane sugar, cacao butter, whole milk powder, cacao nibs, coffee. Cacao content: 44%.
Allergen-related information: Contains Milk. "Manufactured in a facility that also processes: Eggs, Cashews, Peanuts and Coconut."
*Robusta is one of the two main species of coffee we encounter. (The other is Arabica.) Like the Forastero variety of cacao, Robusta coffee has a reputation for bolder flavor and for being more disease resistant. However the flavor was quite smooth. And perhaps because of the higher level of sugar and the smooth cacao, I found the coffee flavor to be almost delicate.
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