Intrigue Chocolate Co.
Cardamom and Rose 60% Cacao (bar)
Good + - Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28 g.) in total bar
Cardamom and Rose 60% Cacao (bar)
Good + - Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28 g.) in total bar
Calories: 155 calories (estimate) in 1 bar
Cost: $6.00 (estimate) for 1 bar
Purchased from: Intrigue Chocolate, online order
Cost: $6.00 (estimate) for 1 bar
Purchased from: Intrigue Chocolate, online order
Welcome to Day #10 of Chocolate, Cardamom & Ginger Week, and Day #1 of Chocolate & Uganda Week.
Today's Cardamom and Rose (Batch 000000072524) 60% Cacao bar was made by Intrigue Chocolate Co. (Seattle, WA). (Note the company is moving soon to Chisholm, MN.) Intrigue offers some great spice blends, so I was happy to be able to feature them this week.
Cardamom and ginger are members of the same family (botanically speaking); yet, it's hard to find them together in chocolates in the U.S. -- except for lovely, India-inspired chai spice blends. So this theme week has included several "either" cardamom "or" ginger spiced chocolates--allowing each spice sibling to shine on its own.
The cacao used to make this bar was "mostly Trinitario and Amelonado" (cacao varieties) from Uganda (Region: Rwenzori, Kisinga microlot).
Aroma and flavor notes included: smooth dark chocolate with sweet, fragrant spice (cardamom), sweet floral (rose, attar), and very faint citrus (sweet orange peel) and nut (almond, hazelnut). (Note: there were no nut ingredients listed for this bar.)
Texture: smooth dark chocolate with some mild dryness (mealiness/astringency). It was not clear whether the dryness was coming from the cacao or the rose petals, or both. (I don't think it was the green cardamom seeds, but I can't be sure.)
I liked all three flavors (dark chocolate, rose and cardamom); they tasted authentic and were individually appealing. There was a sense of balanced liveliness about this bar; but the flip side was that they seemed to not completely settle down with each other completely; perhaps because of the slight astringency/dryness.
Ingredients: Roasted cacao nibs, raw cane sugar, cocoa butter, rose petals, green cardamom seeds.
Allergen-related information: (None listed on package)
