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Moire Cacao - Origin Stories
Cacao Verapaz, Guatemala 72% Dark Chocolate (bar)
Good +++
Weight: .97 oz. (27.5 g.) / 1.94 oz. (55 g.) in total bar
Calories: 170 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $18.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: The Chocolate Dispensary, Los Angeles, CA
Welcome to Day #7 of Chocolate & Central America Theme Week.
Today's Moire Cacao Verapaz, Guatemala 72% Dark Chocolate (bar) was made by Eero Fortuna, LLC (Los Angeles, CA).
Aroma notes included: pleasing dark chocolate (rich fudge brownie, dark ganache) with a touch of milk or cream (there was no dairy in this bar) and diffuse fruit/dried fruit (berries, figs, dates); and (barely detectable) flickers of well-balanced woodsy/nutty/sweet green earth/forest; a slight umami (plum, soy and ginger sauce); faint caramel and maple nut.
Texture: relatively smooth dark chocolate texture, with a very, very fine textural quality from ground-in soft, perfectly ripe dates. (The ripe, high-quality dates and careful manufacturing meant a lack of grainy, dry date texture in the melt and mouthfeel. Thank you!)
Flavor notes included: smooth, dark chocolate with smooth fruit (date and diffuse tropical fruit, berry (ripe blackberry), currant, and faint citrus); and faint nuts/peanut butter in the finish. And just when I thought the flavors had run their course, a bit more stone fruit (apricot) showed up for a few seconds, and then disappeared
I loved this delicious, addictive and well-executed 72% dark chocolate. It had smooth but very flavorful and sophisticated complexity--with a few notes making brief hide-and-seek cameo appearances. The cacao percentage, cacao quality, and the sweetness levels all seemed just right.
This was a very tasty, chocolate-y and fruit-forward bar. It was also the best date-sweetened bar I recall ever tasting.
Thank you to Moire/Eeero Fortuna for working with just three, organic, high-quality ingredients--and for thoughtfully sourcing the Cacao Verapaz (Cahabon, Guatemala) single origin cacao that harmonized so well with the dates.
Maker's Tasting Notes: "Chocolate Brownie, Ripe Currants"
Ingredients: Organic Cacao Beans, Organic Date Powder, Organic Cocoa Butter
Allergen-related information: Processed in a Facility That Also Processes Nuts.
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