About: Everybody talks about it. Everybody. "Belgian Chocolate." It's slightly less exciting to think of this as chocolate owned by $30B Mondelez International corporation and formerly Kraft General Foods. Some of the chocolate is now manufactured in Poland. Still, this is a popular brand in Belgium, and it does have the familiar origin story: "Guy likes chocolate; guy starts business making chocolate; guy succeeds and sells company to conglomerate." The violin music swells. Sniff.
"Côte d'Or" was a reference to Ghana, where the chocolate was originally sourced. Now it comes from South America. Deepest, darkest Africa seems more mysterious than South America, but I don't know that the chocolate is better.
Flavor: Burned. Fortunately, it's not overly sweet for a 70% bar, so that's pleasant. And it's definitely a full flavored chocolate, but it's acidic and well... well roasted... tasting. The flavor profile is full, so that you experience a nice evolutionof burned, ooh-not that burned, earthy, acidic. None of these are nice words, but overall the flavor is good, and I'd have this again for sure.
Texture: Solidly okay. Not super creamy, where you might get excited, but not crunchy and brittle where you'd run for safety.
My rating: 8.0, on the scale of 1-10, where 10 means 'mind shockingly good' and 1 means 'would not bother'. Would eat again happily.
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