Chocolate of the Day
Belvie Chocolate Maker
(Socala Ca-phe Sua bae ha (bar))
Milk Chocolate 55% Cacao Coffee-Mint-Nibs Trinitario (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.4 oz. (40 g.) / 2.8 oz. (80 g.) in total bar
Calories: 226 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $11.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Bar & Cocoa, online order
Welcome to Day #4 of Chocolate and Vietnam Theme Week.
Today's Milk Chocolate 55% Cacao Coffee-Mint-Nibs Trinitario (bar) was from Belvie Chocolate Maker (Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).
The Trinitario variety cacao beans used to make this chocolate were from Dong Nai province.
Aroma notes included: sweet dark chocolate, coffee and mint candy; with very faint fruit and warm spice/cookie (vanilla).
Texture: smooth dark chocolate with a satisfying melt with tiny, crunchy bits of coffee. (The coffee bean bits were just the right size, and were not too hard. Thank you!)
Flavor notes included: smooth, relatively sweet dark chocolate, coffee latte--and chocolate and vanilla mint (cookie-like notes). (Note: there was no vanilla listed in the ingredients; but it did have that pleasant, warm (almost floral) flavor.)
The milk in this bar was quite subtle; and it added a bit of creamy texture and a little natural, mellow sweetness.
I enjoyed trying this coffee and sweet chocolate dessert; it was like a dessert parfait all in one bar.
Ingredients: "Cacao & Cacao Butter 55%, Milk Powder, Coffee, Mint Extract, Cane Sugar: 45%"
Allergen-related information: Contains Milk.
