I’ve written about Mast Brothers Chocolate in several news posts on the blog, but this is my first time reviewing their wares. Mast Brothers is based in NYC, so I hadn’t been able to try them until now – thanks for carrying amazing chocolate bars, Cocoa Cinnamon!
I picked up three of their single origin bars: the Belize, the Madagascar, and the Papua New Guinea. Belize is up first.
The wrapper blurb: “From the Mayan jungles of southern Belize, this ground-breaking cooperative farms world-class, organic cacao. Notes of raisin, plum, and sarsaparilla.
This bar had the dullest surface look of the three bars that I tried. It broke with a sharp snap, and not always along its presegmented lines.
The texture of the bar was on the dry side. When I chewed it up, it felt like it had just lost its grittiness, and there was no tongue-coating melting feel. You can see the fine grit along the break in the image below.
The flavor of this bar was just incredible! A brightly fruity punch of raisin notes dominates the flavor profile and lingers throughout.
I was enthralled by how much flavor this bar brought from having only cacao and cane sugar on its ingredients list. A ZOMG!
Varsha