Chocolate of the Day
Pinwheel Craft Chocolate
70% Dark Tabasco, Mexico (bar)
Good ++ - Good +++
Weight: 2.1 oz. (60 g.) in total bar
Calories: 326 calories (estimate) in 1 bar
Cost: $12.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Pinwheel Chocolate, online order
Welcome to Day #9 of Chocolate and Mexico Theme Week.
Today's 70% Dark Tabasco, Mexico (bar) (Batch #23041) was made by Pinwheel Craft Chocolate (Eagle Mountain, UT).
Aroma and flavor notes for this bar included: dark chocolate milk, fruit (cherry and cherry blossom; peach and persimmon tea); caramel almond latte; balanced forest and fruit teas (with light tannins); and very faint clay/clean mineral.
I could taste the terroir, the cacao, the soils, the fermentation. And it was good. I don't remember any bar quite like this. Virtual travel in a bar for certain. But also a truly unique and wonderful chocolate.
Texture: creamy, smooth, almost like dark milk chocolate tea (but there was no milk).
I enjoyed the intriguing, balanced and very complex bundle of wide-ranging (and authentic-tasting) flavors in this bar. I kept thinking of different teas (oolong persimmon tea anyone?) when I ate this chocolate. Saying there were faint tea-floral and stone fruit flavors don't begin to do justice to this single origin, single estate bar.
Maker's Tasting Notes: "...It has a complex and unique flavor that defies description. We are honored to make chocolate from these special beans."
Ingredients: Cacao beans, cane sugar*, cocoa butter* (* = organic ingredients)
Allergen-related information: Made on shared equipment that processes nuts and dairy
