Here’s another bar from the Dagoba line, the Xocolatl. It’s described as “rich dark chocolate, chilies, and nibs.” It had a 74% base, perhaps the same chocolate that made up the New Moon? The chocolate had a dry and crunchy snap. It was tough for me to get a flavor profile from this bar because…
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Dagoba Chocolates – Milk and New Moon
I received a couple of Dagoba chocolate squares in my American Chocolate Week Chocolate Gift Pack: Milk and New Moon. I’d reviewed the Milk before, but that was years ago, and it was nice to take another gander at it with a much darker Dagoba bar for contrast. The Milk was 37% cacao. The coloring…
Dagoba Super Fruit
It was bound to happen. I bought and wrote a review for a candy that I’ve already written about: the Dagoba Super Fruit bar. But I’m publishing it anyway, as it’s far more thorough than my first review of it. In my defense, the bar’s wrapper has changed, so I um… didn’t recognize it? The…
Dagoba Superfruit and Mon Cheri
Dagoba was my introduction to upscale chocolate. It was a big part of my first chocolate tasting party, when I first really tasted chocolate, which is why I have reviewed as many Dagoba bars as I have. That and they’re sold at the campus convenience store, where I used to have $150 to spend there…
Calhoun College Chocolate Tasting Notes, Round II
After the success of my first chocolate tasting (notes here), I held a second one with the extra bars. Unfortunately, by the time the second tasting rolled around, most of the bars had bloomed thanks to New Haven humidity and temperature fluctuations and a lack of air conditioning. The Vosges chocolate bars were the only…
Calhoun College Chocolate Tasting Notes
My tasting notes, as promised. I loved how I was able to notice the subtle differences between the bars by tasting them all together. For example, when I first tasted the Scharffen Berger Extra Rich Milk, I thought it was sweet and yogurty. Tasting it right after the Chocolove Milk and the Papua single origin…
Dagoba Organic Chocolate – Chai and Roseberry
Today marks the finale of Dagoba Chocolate (BUY!) Week, and I’ve saved the most interesting for last! The Dagoba Chai is 37% milk chocolate, crystallized ginger, and spices. That last “spices” bit is annoyingly generic, and the ingredients list isn’t much help. There “spices” is replaced with “essential oils.” When I ate this bar, I…
Dagoba Organic Chocolate – Milk and Hazelnut
Dagoba Chocolate (BUY!) Week continues with the milk and hazelnut bars! The milk bar is pretty straightforward. Milk chocolate, 37% cacao solids. According to Wikipedia, anything over 35% cacao can be called dark chocolate, so I appreciate that Dagoba still called this milk. It’s a European/Cadbury-style milk chocolate with a yogurty finish (as opposed to…
Dagoba Organic Chocolate – Dark and Lime
Welcome to Dagoba Week! This week’s 6 Dagoba bars were blindly tasted by 14 of my friends (and me!) at my chocolate party along with 7 other non-Dagoba chocolate bars. I had my friends rate every chocolate that they tasted on a scale of 1-5. The New Yorker ran an excellent piece on Dagoba Chocolate…
Par-tay!
Chocolate party, that is. I’ve been stockpiling nice chocolate bars and haven’t gotten around to eating them yet. Now I have too much chocolate to possibly eat on my own (my life is so hard, I know), so I’m going to throw a chocolate tasting party. Yum! The featured guests:
