Special Collection
Cacao 70
Summary
- Almonds, cocoa, and floral notes
- Unique, light-profiled award-winning chocolate
- Cost: N/A (came in a box of chocolates)
Review
The chocolate tastes light, cool, and silky. Sometimes after you eat earthy chocolate, it feels heavy and warm. Most chocolates I eat feel heavy. I would analogize it to drinking light roast coffee versus dark roast coffee or light green teas versus dark oolong blacks.
The flavor stays consistent and mild throughout the entire experience. It is the type of bar where, if you are not careful, you can easily consume in one sitting because of its light profile. The silkiness of the bar reminds me of chocolate shells made of poured chocolate liquor.
The beans come from a remote Guatemalan cocoa farming village called San Juan Chivite. (You can read about the farm on Goodnow Farm’s website.)
The Story of this Bar
My sister and brother-in-law gifted me a chocolate subscription from Bar & Cocoa for Christmas of 2018. For three months straight, I would arrive home to a surprise box waiting for me.
Each surprise box would contain four bars of chocolate from various makers. Apart from the delight of coming home to open up a box of surprise chocolate, the another fascinating and fun part of the experience was observing how Bar & Cocoa changed its packaging approach across the three months.
I did some research on Bar & Cocoa and stumbled across the internet’s growing populace of craft chocolate lovers, including a person who had interviewed the Bar & Cocoa founder for a podcast. My research and obsession of chocolate has been a slower and steadier one, as I continue to learn more about the fledgling cocoa fan club as I do research along with each blog post.
These photos also coincide with my brother-in-law purchasing a lightbox for me to take fancier photos. Photography is not my forte, but the product manager in me has convinced me that trial-and-error is a good thing…and perfection can never be the goal.
This bar came in the first shipment. It is also one of the first that I took photos in the lightbox with.