Review and sensory evaluation of @creminogianduia qualified taster, founder and owner chocolate7

 

Cacao Prieto, is a bean to bar chocolate maker from United States. This fine chocolate bar is made with cocoa from Dominican Republic. cacao Prieto vanilla & cassia 72% is a flavoured dark chocolate with a sweet taste, and aromatic notes of fresh fruit, vanilla and cinnamon.

 

Maker

Cacao Prieto was founded by Daniel Prieto Preston, an aerospace inventor and engineer, whose family has grown organic cocoa in the Dominican Republic for over 100 years. The Prieto family owns Coralina Farms which supplies all the cocoa for Prieto cocoa chocolate and liqueurs. Coralina Farms is also the center for long-range experiments in the field of organic and self-sustainable agriculture. Cacao Prieto products come from organic cocoa beans from Coralina and organic sugar farms in the Dominican Republic, for this reason, Cacao Prieto is today one of the very few companies in the world to control the production process from the farm to the finished product. Cacao Prieto in his laboratory located at 218 Conover Street, in the district of Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, produces a line of fine chocolate bars with different varieties of percentages and types of cocoa and a line of chocolates with wonderful flavors. Cacao Prieto also produces a variety of rum and cocoa-based liqueurs whose unique flavors derive from the fermentation process of the cocoa itself.

 

Maker country:

United States

 

Cocoa beans (origin and variety):

Dominican Republic

 

 

Ingredients:

Organic cocoa, organic raw cane sugar, vanilla beans, cinnamon and cocoa butter

 

Type of chocolate:

Flavoured dark chocolate

Cocoa content:

72%

 

Sensory evaluation

Visual examination

Colour: *****
Shine: *****
Homogeneity of the surface: ******

 

Olfactory examination

Aromatic notes:

nuts, toasted, spicy

Aromatic intensity: ******
Aromatic complexity: ******
Aromatic finesse: ******

 

Auditory examination

Sound (snap): *****

 

Tactile examination

Hardness: *****
Melting point: *****
Tactile finesse: ******
Roundness: *****
Astringency: –

 

Taste examination

Sweetness: ***
Acidity: *
Bitterness: –

 

Retro-olfactory examination

Tasting notes:

honey, orange, banana, coconut, berries, pistachio, vanilla, coffee, Bordeaux wine, cloves and cinnamon

Aromatic intensity: ***
Aromatic complexity: ****
Aromatic finesse: ****

Persistence of the aromatic notes: ***

 

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