Claudio Corallo 75% Chocolate

About: Claudio Corallo claims to be the first chocolate manufacturer that owned their own cocoa source. That's marketing. There's a lot of marketing here, going down to the reasons they aren't fair trade certified and explaining their packaging (they're probably the only manufacturer of chocolate that staples their name to the package), etc.The chocolate is manufactured under primitive conditions on Principe Island off the coast of Africa. Some people associate simple manufacturing methods with the ye olde days when all was good. I tend to associate them with ye sicke days when disease was rampant. There's nothing wrong with wine made in stainless steel, and there's nothing wrong with chocolate made with modern machinery. But that doesn't mean this chocolate isn't well made.


Flavor: Very full flavored. Eat this next to other bars and you'll see that it's definitely different. If you open the package and smell, you'll get a strong whiff of earthy, full, rich flavor. If you've eaten papaya and know how its aroma borders on the repellent, you get the picture here. A friend who tried this gagged and yelled a distinctly diminishing deprecation.


Texture: Perfectly reasonable.

My rating: I don't know how to rate this chocolate. If you like something really full flavored, this is a 9.5. If you're grossed out by something that is just too earthy, you might hate this chocolate.

Here,  10 means 'mind shockingly good' and 1 means 'would not bother'.


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