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Chocolate Review 10 - El Rey Apamate Dark Chocolate 73.5%
Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 08:42PM
I always want to like every chocolate I eat. I even expect to like every chocolate I eat. However, that doesn't always happen.
This chocolate comes from Venezuela. Inside the wrapper, you find this declaration:
"Venezuelan cacao is the most aromatic and flavorful in the world, period."
I have tried other Venezuelan chocolate that holds up to this statement. Just not this time.
Its taken me three days to finally put my thoughts on this bar in this blog. It does smell really, really, really good. In the looks department, it's matte and has a healthy snap. So far, so good, right?
Unfortunately, the good stops there. Maybe I had high expectations, but the taste was just average to me. It's a little dry and flat. I've pretty much tasted this before in a bag of semisweet chocolate chips from Ghiradelli or Nestle. I don't hate it, but there's nothing new a revolutionary about it. I won't say that's it's "blah", but there's nothing that sets it apart from your average chocolate. It's a basic dark chocolate and that's not a bad thing.
Price: $4.95
Rating: 2 out of 5 cacao beans
This chocolate comes from Venezuela. Inside the wrapper, you find this declaration:
"Venezuelan cacao is the most aromatic and flavorful in the world, period."
I have tried other Venezuelan chocolate that holds up to this statement. Just not this time.
Its taken me three days to finally put my thoughts on this bar in this blog. It does smell really, really, really good. In the looks department, it's matte and has a healthy snap. So far, so good, right?
Unfortunately, the good stops there. Maybe I had high expectations, but the taste was just average to me. It's a little dry and flat. I've pretty much tasted this before in a bag of semisweet chocolate chips from Ghiradelli or Nestle. I don't hate it, but there's nothing new a revolutionary about it. I won't say that's it's "blah", but there's nothing that sets it apart from your average chocolate. It's a basic dark chocolate and that's not a bad thing.
Price: $4.95
Rating: 2 out of 5 cacao beans
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Reader Comments (1)
funny, this is one of my favorite dark chocolate bars i have tasted out there. guess to each their own ...