Domori Fondente Dark Chocolate 70% cacao

This bar melts slowly in the mouth, retaining a dense core while melting. The taste is buttery, with a caramel flavor that develops into bitterness in the aftertaste. 7.4

Ingredients: Cocoa mass, cane sugar

domori.com

I bought this bar in early October during our trip to Venice. Note that this is a rare non-single origin bar for ChocoCheck.

Pierre Marcolini Cuba Terruño de Baracoa 78% cacao

This bar is robust and fairly bitter. There is some chalkiness from the bitterness, and the texture has a fine granular nature. The flavors range from burnt sugar to cardboard. 7.0

Price: 10.00 Euro

This is another bar purchased during my visit to the Pierre Marcolini store in Paris.

Le Comptoir de Mathilde Madagascar 80% cacao

This bar has an earthy taste of straw or wood. Quite bitter, as would be expected with 80% cacao. Aftertaste is persistent and dry. 7.3

Price: 5.90 Euro

www.lecomptoirdemathilde.com

This is one more bar from my fall trip to Europe.  This one came from a store in Paris.

Last stop for today’s choco tour, @ComptoirMathild in the Left Bank. pic.twitter.com/4koO9upqo7

— Steve Nahm (@SteveNahm) September 19, 2019

VizioVirtú Dominican Republic 70% cacao

This bar has a quite smooth taste profile. It is reminiscent of cooked pudding, with some caramel notes. The finish is gentle and clean. 8.2

Ingredients: fave di cacao Repubblica domenicana, zucchero, burror di cacao, emulsionante lecitina de SOIA

Translated:

Ingredients: Dominican Republic cocoa beans, sugar, cocoa butter, lecithin emulsifier from SOYA

 

www.viziovirtu.com

This is another bar from the Italy part of our recent Europe trip. VizioVirtú is a nice chocolate boutique in Venice. I posted photos of my visit in this tweet.

CioKarrua Peru San Martin 72% cacao

The bar is granulate, so the texture is crunchy with sugar crystals. It is also sweet for 72% cacao. The only flavor that is noticeable is straw-earthiness. The aftertaste is somewhat bitter, not in a pleasant way. 3.0

Price: 5.40 Euro

www.ciokarrua.it

The bar is one more from my trip to Europe. This was purchased in Italy from a local market. It has the dishonor of having the lowest rating of any bar on Choco Check.

François Pralus Papouasie (Papua New Guinea) 75% cacao

On first taste this bar has a bitter front, but this develops into a roasted profile, with smoke and toast as the prominent notes. The flavor develops further into a butterscotch taste. The finish pulls these flavors together into a long tail off. 7.8

Price: 4.90 Euro

This is another bar purchased on my recent trip to Europe. It was purchased at the Pralus store in Paris, shown in this tweet. I have reviewed many Pralus bars on ChocoCheck, so I needed to look carefully for a bar I had not tasted. This bar was the only one I found that was new to ChocoCheck.

Saveurs & Nature Peru 70% cacao

This bar is fairly bitter, with cocoa as the main flavor. The effect is an earthy dirt taste and a long, difficult aftertaste. 6.6

Ingredients: Cocoa paste*, cane sugar*, cocoa butter*.
* organic

www.saveursetnature.com

This is another bar from my trip to France in September.