More chocolate from the Monoprix Gourmet range. A mixed bag as was the last bar. Beautiful packaging but the base chocolate is not that good. While the ecorces d'oranges bar, which is charmingly labelled "un petit air de fete" has a strong orange flavour and are generously filled with bits of slightly sweetened orange peel, the chocolate itself is a little chalky. Definitely another case where the chocolate is secondary to the filling. Cocoa content 70%.
The fair trade bar produced from cocoa beans harvested by small producers north of the Equator, hence the name, is 74% cocoa and frankly, not very good. With fairly faint flavour and aroma, it's not bitter and in fact is very slightly sweet with added cane sugar. There is a strange aftertaste which I find pretty unpleasant. This is going to have to become coating for strawberries I think as I can't eat it on its own.
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