Product Description

I discovered this plantation in a splendid environment to the north east of the island of Santo Domingo, at the heart of the Caribbean where the family Rizek has produced, since 1903, exquisite cocoa beans. Lengthily worked, the beans release in this chocolate their aromas of liquorice wood, then red berries and green olives with a lingering flavour of currants and apricots. *Check out the other chocolates at The Meadow on Amazon! We will automatically combine shipping on multiple items from The Meadow to give you cheaper shipping on multiple orders*

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64717 in Grocery
• Brand: The Meadow
• Ingredients: Cacao, cane sugar, cacao butter, bourbon vanilla pod
• Dimensions: .40" h x 3.00" w x 6.50" l, .22 pounds

Features

• 100 g / 3.5 oz
• 67% Cacao
• Dark chocolate from the renowned line of 'Premier Cru de Plantation' chocolates
• A delicious chocolate for any chocolate lover
• From the chocolate plantations of Santo Domingo

Customer Reviews

Singularly Astonishing.
Acquiring a taste for dark chocolate is a patient process. Having been satisfied by milk chocolate in our younger years, appreciating the complex delectability that dark chocolate offers requires a certain amount of age. The passing of time tends to refine our tastes, and there is no one this is more visible to than those who have come to luxuriate their palates with dark chocolate. The emerging popularity of dark chocolate has lead to a great abundance of manufacturers producing high-percentage cacao chocolate bars. However, there is an extremely great challenge to producing a bar that strikes the perfect balance between offsetting the bitterness of cacao and maintaining its absolute and brilliant flavor. Thus, many of the high-percentage dark chocolate bars produced today fall far beneath the standard; high quality chocolate has come to be defined by those who know it.

An Internet search will reveal that there exists an absolute kingdom of dark chocolate. A visit to the premier dark-chocolate review site, Seventypercent, will ignite the strongest curiosity of anyone interested in entering the world of high-percentage, high-quality chocolate. I will leave the description of the bar's complexity up to Hans-Peter Rot and Alex Rast, the writers of the site; these two are the consummate professionals in the world of dark chocolate review. So experienced are these two, they are able to describe and dissect each flavor down to the exotic notes of nuts, berries and floral arrangements evident in the manufacture of each bar. Reading these two describe each bar in such detailed complexity is enough to make even the mildly interested run to the nearest chocolate confectioner. Upon reading their reviews, I immediately searched the Internet for a place to purchase some of these bars. I was lucky enough to come upon Chocosphere, a truly wondrous Internet store of the world's finest chocolatiers.

Using Seventypercent as a guide, I have undertaken a seemingly endless venture to find the perfect dark chocolate. When done right, I have found that my particular fondness lies at the 85% range. However, this is not to say that chocolate at a lower percentage should by any means be ignored, specifically when it comes to Michel Cluizel. By all measures, Cluizel is the seminal dark chocolatier; his ability to produce a variety of chocolate with flavors that absolutely mystify is the surest possible evidence.

Having tried several hundred high-percentage bars, it is entirely accurate, despite being arguable, that this 67% cacao bar is the single best chocolate bar ever produced. It may be quite expensive, but upon tasting it, one will easily see where every penny went.