Colombie

Pralus

PERCENT: min 75% Cacao

CACAO BEANS:  Trinitario

ORIGIN OF CACAO:  Colombia

Latitude:  3 degrees 45'N, Longitude:  73 degrees 10'W

COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE:  France

CHOCOLATIER: François Pralus

CHOCOLATIER'S TASTING NOTES:

Powerful nose, good aromatic balance, coffee, buttered milk caramel, slightly astringent after-taste.

OUR NOTES:

There are a lot of different tastes in this chocolate.  There's a bit of apricot/red fruit right off, then that fades to a subtle, but definite hint of coffee.  It finishes with a suggestion of buttery caramel.  Some taste in this chocolate is very similar to the Santander, yet more subtle and with more depth.  That's not surprising since both chocolates use Colombian grown cacao beans.  Could it be that caramel-coffee combination?  Maybe that's why Colombian coffee is so famous.  There's something in the soil there that makes everything taste a bit like coffee!   A long finish on this one (Al recorded 20 minutes).