This chocolate is tasty and robust. It starts with a tea flavor, with small round notes. Quickly, touches of black pepper follow, then hazelnut. At the end, it leaves a very small bitterness. A fine and very pleasant chocolate, although a little short in mouth.
It is a woody chocolate, with a rather subtle taste behind a pronounced bitterness. You can feel that the cocoa has been roasted, without it reducing the flavor. Images come to me of a stretch of gray road, at the border of the cloud forest and the coast, where the humid smells await us just a little further down, and where a man is watching over some cocoa seeds roasting on the sun-warmed asphalt. It’s that kind of chocolate: it takes you on a journey, it reminds you of a particular detail, a detail more spectacular for what it tells than for what it is.
This is a slightly more interesting chocolate than the 40% milk. There is enough cocoa in it to detect the characteristic touches of Republica del Cacao. Despite this, the milk still erases the subtle notes that make the particular value of arriba cocoa. It is a pity, even if it is a very pleasant chocolate, and of good quality.
A little treat. It’s a chocolate that disappears quickly - probably because it’s sweeter! Republica del Cacao’s milk chocolate is as fine as the dark chocolate. You get the richness of the arriba cocoa while enjoying the slightly more indulgent and less bitter side. The pieces of “Inca berry” (a cousin of the Quebec ground cherry) provide welcome bursts of acidity! A great value for those with a sweet tooth!
This is a full-bodied chocolate that does not hide its power. It assumes its place as the most bitter chocolate of the Republica del Cacao brand. It’s interesting: often, arriba cocoa is known for its dark chocolates without bitterness. But here we see that it can also compete in this area. Behind this pronounced trait, we can guess a flavor of bark and coffee. A chocolate that distinguishes itself by its intensity and bitterness, for those who like this character trait.