Monday, December 7, 2015

Hachez Premier Cru 88% Cacao











About: Hachez is a German chocolate with a well deserved reputation for taste. No really. This chocolate is well differentiated from most other chocolates. Check out the 77% bar review, also. My guess is that they put a lot of cocoa butter into this bar; from the ingredients, it doesn't look like it's just cacao beans sugar and vanilla (and lecithin), the regular regimen of many bars. They seem to mix the cacao powder and cocoa butter separately. What ever they are doing, it works. 


Flavor: Full flavored and very smooth. Many high cocoa content bars are bitter or sour, but this bar is flavorful without any unpleasant "oh I must suffer through this sour bit to get to the chocolate flavor" going on. On tasting a sample, it takes a couple of seconds for the flavor to come in. But it is full and fruity, and it lasts and lasts.

Texture: Frankly, I just don't know how they manage to get this bar to be so smooth and so creamy. The texture is not at all brittle, an almost ubiquitous property of high-content chocolate bars. This bar is velvety. Fantastic.


My rating: 9.5  on the scale of 1-10, where 10 means 'mind shockingly good' and 1 means 'would not bother'. This is one of the best bars I have had.




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