Les Chocolats des Français Noir 71% cacao

This bar has a flat chocolate taste with little flavors other than cacao. What flavor there is tends towards the buttery side. The bitterness is quite low, and the aftertaste nearly non-existent. 7.2

Ingredients: Organic dark chocolate: cocoa mass, red cane sugar, cocoa butter.

This bar was purchased in a convenience store in Paris.

The notes on the back of this bar are in French, so a Google Translate version is shown below:

Michel Cluizel Mexico Plantation Mokaya 66% cacao

This bar has a buttery taste, bordering on cream. It is very low in bitterness, with a short, crisp aftertaste to go with it.

Once again, I purchased this bar on my recent Europe trip, and as with the prior Michel Cluizel bar this one also has vanilla in the ingredients, so no rating this time. But a very nice bar!

Heilemann Dark Chocolate 62% cacao

This is a smooth chocolate, with less cacao punch. That is not surprising given the 62% cacao level. The most prominent flavor is caramel. 7.8

Ingredients; cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin

This is a bar I purchased during my recent Europe trip, picked up in Germany.

Edwart Chocolatier Peru Apurímac 72% cacao

This bar has a nice pop of flavor, some citrus and some berry. The texture is smooth and buttery, with a nice finish. The aftertaste has minimal bitterness. 9.2

Price: 9.00 Euro

Ingredients: Grués de cacao Apurímac (62.5%), sucre de canne, beurre de cacao, lécithine de soja
Translated: Apurímac cocoa nibs (62.5%), cane sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin

www.edwart.fr

This is one more bar from my recent trip to Europe. I visited Edwart's chocolate boutique while in Paris. This Tweet has a photo of the store. This is another bar with a French label, so once more I will post the Google Translate version of the testing notes from the label:

Richart Dominican Republic Santodino 70% cacao

This bar does not have vanilla in its ingredient list, but there is a taste of that bean in the flavor mix. Outside of this there is some creamy and orange blossom notes. 8.5

Richart formerly had a store in San Francisco and I documented their closure in this Chococheck post. It was good to find one of their boutiques during my recent trip to Paris. This Tweet includes a photo of their store.

I usually include the "From the label" comments in a comment to the original post, but as this bar's notes are in French, I will include a Google Translate version here:

Pierre Marcolini Madagascar Ambanja 76% cacao

The texture is fairly chalky, a little granular. There is a subtle fruit taste, cherry or berry. 7.0

Price: 7.00 Euro

Ingredients: Cocoa beans, sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin without GMO

I have tasted other Pierre Marcolini bars previously. They were carried by Cocoa Bella, a store which had been located in San Francisco Center, but which is no longer there. My earlier review of a Marcolini bar of Madagascar origin (though a different plantation) resulted in a similar rating: Marcolini Carré2 Chocolat Samburano Madagascar 78% cacao

I purchased this bar and another to be reviewed later during my trip to Paris in September. This Tweet has a photo in front of their Paris store.