What a joy to find a new Chicao bar. The 70% had already made a great impression on me. Here we have another excellent chocolate. Without any bitterness, it blends the perfumed notes of orange blossom, the roundness of banana, and the tang of mango.
Hacienda El Castillo makes chocolate from plantation to bar. This trinitario cacao, named “Don Homero,” is distinct from arriba cacao and similar to other trinitario bars I’ve tried.
Friends brought me this chocolate from Mexico — always a welcome gift! According to the website, this is a trinitario cacao.
Belly’s chocolate is made from high-altitude cacao, which gives a particular taste and texture present across their bars. Here, milk softens Belly’s edges, making it creamy and sweet. You can still recognize signature high-altitude flavors — rosemary and tobacco — transformed by milk into fresh notes of mint and watermelon.
Viferchi offers a very fruity chocolate with notes of peach, red fruit and mint. Unfortunately, at 55% it is very, perhaps too, sweet — giving the impression of a supermarket candy rather than a fine chocolate.