Chocolate Tree Belize Maya Mountain 75% cacao

The bar has a bracing cacao flavor, which is buttery with caramel flavor. The aftertaste is smooth, with a short duration. 9.2

www.choctree.co.uk

This product is packaged as two bars, each with a  different mold. Of the two, I found the monkey pattern the most creative.Their website, which I had not previously listed on the other Chocolate Tree bars I reviewed (the Chocolate Tree Peru 69% cacao and the historic review of Cranberry 55% cacao), has photos from the company's trip to Belize for sourcing the beans used in this bar:

https://www.choctree.co.uk/belize-maya-mountain-cacao-2018/

Fu Wan Taiwan #1 70% cacao

This bar has a buttery flavor with a toffee or malt taste. There is a bitter edge underlying the taste, which leads to a toasty finish. Otherwise the aftertaste is fairly smooth. 9.1

Ingredients: Cacao Bean, Sugar, Cacao Butter

www.fuwanshop.com

This is another Choco Check first -- a Taiwan origin and manufactured chocolate. The website reports that a 62% cacao version of this Taiwan #1 chocolate won the Best in Competition Overall Winner as well as 5 Gold Medals in the 2017 ICA Asia-Pacific Competition.

This is a bar I purchased at San Francisco's premier chocolate shop, Chocolate Covered. Their price was $13 for a 46g bar.

Godiva Dark 85% cacao

The bar is as bitter as the 85% cacao contained in the bar would expect to demonstrate. The flavors are roasted with a tinge of coffee flavor. The aftertaste is lengthy, which is no surprise of course. 7.4

Ingredients: Unsweetened chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, butter oil (milk), emulsifier (soy lecithin).

This is the third mass-produced chocolate bar tasted recently (counting the two Ritter Sport bars). The ingredients list on this bar is lengthy, more so than the Ritter bars.

Ritter Sport Peru Intense 74% cacao

This bar starts on the bitter side. Its flavor has a roasted profile with smoke and charcoal. There's a suggestion of vanilla in the aftertaste, which is less bitter overall. 7.8

These Ritter Sport bars are fairly thick, which packs the chocolate into a smaller box. Tasting the bar in the traditional way, allowing it to melt in the mouth, requires more time to let the bar dissolve. 

Ritter Sport Nicaragua Dark 61% cacao

Smooth taste profile. Flavor is buttery, on the side of toffee and caramel. Aftertaste is light and short. 8.2

Prior Ritter Sport bars reviewed on ChocoCheck did not provide the origin of the cacao, but this bar does list Nicaragua as the source of the "cocoa mass." Prior reviews: Ritter Sport Ecuador Fine Extra Dark 71% Cacao and Ritter Sport Fine Extra Dark 73% cocoa.

Ingredients: chocolate liquor, sugar, cacao butter

Lolli & Pops Brazil Fazenda Camboa 70% cacao

Fairly bitter front experience, with strong earthy flavors backing it.As expected, the aftertaste is long lasting. 7.7

Castronova Columbia Sierra Nevada 72% cacao

The front door experience of this bar is a jab of bitterness. Once inside, subtle sweetness asserts born of a faint honey flavor. Aftertaste is chewy as a result of the bitter lead. 8.2

Ingredients: cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter