Monday, August 25, 2008

A Snob's Chocolate Bar

I have eaten so many different types of chocolate in bar form, bite size form, from the US, from the UK, from Spain, from you name it. I search and then search more for the perfect quintessential cocoa experience. There must be one out there somewhere. Something so exquisite and esoteric to the world of chocolate, so world shaking that it would send you into a new level of enlightenment, so wonderful that you would become an addict instantly. 

While I have not reached nirvana during my chocolate eating experiences, I have found a few bars that are very good. One in particular is spectacular and I might say, reaching back into my mind to see if it's true, is the best bar I personally have found. There are no distractions from the bean and it's special cultivation and exact roast make it unique. This is not chocolate, this is culinary excellence. 

Dagoba is the brand. Milagos is the bar. 

I usually like a higher concentration of cocoa in my chocolate, but the beans used in this bar are so incredible that I don't care in this case. 68% cocoa. There is not too much sugar, and not too much cocoa mass (for me that has to be over 90% for me not to eat it). The chocolate is sweet, not from the sugar, but from the bean itself. The bean variety has a floral and fruity taste as well as a deep and earthy base. It knocked my all-time favorite bar (Conocado by Dagoba) off it's pedestal and onto the floor. 

This is a true single source bean bar. One can experience the true flavors of the bean itself through these bars.

This is a bar you can serve with a great meal. Get out your good wines, your belgian beers, your fine cheeses and open up this bar. A new world of gastronomical wonder is about to unfold before you.

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