Hacienda El Castillo - Plantation Natural - 70% Cacao
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.
Feliu - 70% Origin Chontalpa Tabasco
Friends brought me this chocolate from Mexico — always a welcome gift! According to the website, this is a trinitario cacao.
Belly's Cocoa - Milk Chocolate
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 - 55% Traditional Dark Chocolate
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.
Minka - Raw 77% with Golden Berry
Small pieces of uvilla (golden berry) are added dry under the bar. They quickly give an acidic-sweet color to an otherwise serious Minka Raw chocolate with notes of tea, pepper, and rind.