Chicao - 100% - Fine Aroma Cocoa
Green mint, pine, lemon, bread and butter. The tasting of this 100% chocolate unfolds in stages — different notes emerging depending on whether you let it melt slowly or take several pieces at once.
Minka - Raw - 77% Plain
After trying all the flavor combinations from Minka Raw, it was perhaps time to taste the pure chocolate version.
Huma - Identidad Collection - 60% - Choco Chapo
This is not a flavored chocolate in the strict sense. And yet, the ingredient list includes machica (toasted barley flour) and cedrón — two discreet presences that make it quietly unique.
Kallari - 63% Dark Chocolate with Inca Peanut
Plukenetia volubilis — also known as sacha inchi — is native to South America, its roasted seeds reminiscent of peanuts. This is what takes center stage in this bar, while the Kallari chocolate itself remains characteristically restrained. The sacha inchi pieces, broken into fragments, deliver a peanut-like flavor — close enough to be familiar, yet different enough to pique curiosity. Slightly more herbaceous, with a faint wild note that sets it apart.
Conexion - 70% Fine Cacao - Manabi
As often, Conexión greets us with a chocolate whose intensity strikes from the first second and carries through the entire tasting. It is a deeply fruity chocolate — blackberries, cherries, raspberries, currants. It also transports us to the warmth of the Manabí coast: one can almost catch the scent of hot, humid plantations, even from an air-conditioned apartment in Montreal.