Chocolate of the Day
Godavari Chocolate Inc.
Bon-fiction "An Eclipse of the Senses" 99% dark chocolate (bar)
Good +
Weight: .485 oz. (13.75 g.) / 1.94 oz. (55 g.) in total bar
Calories: 92.5 calories in 1/4 bar
Cost: $8.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: The Village Market, S.F. Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA
Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate and India Week.
Today's Bon-fiction "An Eclipse of the Senses" 99% dark chocolate (bar) was made from tree-to-bar in India, and imported and distributed by Godavari Chocolate Inc. (Folsom, CA).
The cacao used to make this bar was "hand-picked from farms in the Godavari region of Southern India."
Aroma notes were roast-y and chocolate-y, and relatively subdued. The intensity arrived with the first bite. The flavor notes for this single origin, tree-to-bar 99% cacao chocolate included: ultra-dark chocolate; with relatively tart (yogurt), bitter and roasted wood and earth notes.
The texture was smooth and relatively buttery/creamy. (Note: Often there is added cocoa butter, on top of what is present with the cacao beans being used in ultra-dark bars. Surprisingly, there was no added cocoa butter listed on the ingredients. I consider that a brave choice with very bold, dark cacaos like this (with strong Trinitario + Forestero qualities.)
"The Eclipse of the Senses" was a fitting name for this bar. There were very few subtleties here. But, just like an eclipse, at the very end you feel the light from the Sun/Moon coming back again.
I could imagine small quantities of this almost unsweetened chocolate being used with other, sweeter, flavors (sauces, meats, specific vegetable dishes, spirits, smoothies/shakes, dried fruits, affogatos, etc.)--to provide some interesting contrast or flavor depth.
I liked that this was tree-to-bar chocolate (made "in country" in India where the cacao was also grown); the short list of (two) ingredients; the unapologetic darkness (in small doses); and the faint mellower chocolate note(s) that popped up briefly at the very end of a long finish.
Ingredients: "Cocoa Beans, Organic Cane Sugar."
Allergen-related information: "Manufactured in a facility that also processes: Milk, Peanuts, Almond, Cashew, Walnut, Coconut, Hazelnut, Pistachio."
