Willie's Cacao Madagascan gold Sambirano 71%

No real change to the appearance of the Venezuelan gold bar. No, wait! The unreadable blue text has turned pinkish red and is much more easily read.

OMG! And I don't use that expression. Ever. Because I'm a man and over fourty. The aroma is everything anyone could want in a chocolate. It's fruity, it's chocolatey, it's everything chocolate needs to have. Perfect! Well, maybe I should taste it as well...

Like the previously reviewed Venezuelan gold bar, I notice a slight floury texture in the chocolate. It really doesn't disturb me, but having tasted silky smooth chocolates I'm almost obligated to mention it and deduct one point because of that. Sorry, Mr. William!

The characteristic strong fruityness and acidity of Madagascan cocoa is present here, oh is it ever! I love the tingle in my palate and on my tongue. There is such an explosion of flavours going on in my mouth, that I'm almost lost for words. Halfway into the 50g bar I'm already worried about me only having a few more bars of this left in my stash. But those I have to share. Maybe they don't read my blog or know English? Back to the issue at hand: There is no bitterness in the chocolate, but being almost a newcomer to single-origin bean-to-bar chocolates myself (a couple years experience), I'm sure this will raise some eyebrows at future tastings. To me this is as close to a sweet place as you can get, without actually getting in.

I'm ever so slightly disappointed that the aftertaste doesn't last longer. I would have loved to savour the taste a bit longer, but luckily there is a solution for that: Eat more chocolate! Don't mind if I do...

Ingredients: Cocoa mass, raw cane sugar & cocoa butter

Ulkoasullisesti tässä ei ole merkittävää eroa Venezuelan gold -levyyn. Eikun hetkinen! Lukukelvoton sininen teksti on muuttunut pinkihtäväksi ja on selvästi helppolukuisempaa.

OMG! Enkä minä edes käytä tällaisia teinilyhenteitä, koska olen mies ja yli 40. Tuoksussa on kaikkea mitä suklaalta voi odottaa. Se on hedelmäinen, kaakaoinen, kaikkea mitä suklaan pitääkin olla. Täydellistä! Tai no ehkä minun pitäisi maistaakin tätä...

Kuten aiemmin arvioimassani Venezuelan gold -levyssä, huomaan pientä jauhoisuutta suklaan rakenteessa. Ei se minua häiritse, mutta kun on päässyt maistamaan silkkisen sileitä suklaita tuntuu lähes velvollisuudelta mainita asiasta ja vähentää siitä yksi koostumuspiste. Sori, Herra William!

Madagaskarilaiselle kaakaolle ominaiset hedelmäisyys ja hapokkuus löytyvät todellakin tästä suklaasta! Kielellä ja kitalaessa tuntuva kihelmöinti on hauska. Suussa soi sellainen makujen sinfonia, että sanat eivät riitä sen kuvailemiseen. Syötyäni puolet 50 gramman levystä olen jo huolissani siitä, että tätä suklaata on enää muutama levy jemmassa ja nekin joudun jakamaan muiden kanssa. Ehkäpä he eivät lue blogiani? Ja sitten takaisin asiaan: Suklaassa ei ole lainkaan kitkeryyttä, mutta aavistan, että vaikka itsekin olen vasta harrastelijatasolla (pari vuotta tällaisten suklaiden parissa takana) niin tämä suklaa tulee nostattamaan muutamia kulmakarvoja tulevissa maisteluissa. Tämä hipoo ihan täydellisyyttä, vai onko se jopa jo saavutettu, en osaa sanoa varmuudella.

Olen ihan pikkuriikkisen pettynyt siitä, että jälkimaku ei säily tämän pidempään. Olisi ollut mukava nauttia mausta pidempään, mutta siitä ongelmastahan pääsee eroon pistämällä uutta suklaapalaa suuhun. Tuumasta toimeen...

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Willie's Cacao milk of the gods Rio Caribe 44%

This is the first milk chocolate in this blog. It's also the first milk chocolate I've ever noticed  to include only milk (powdered in this case) in addition to cocoa and sugar. Cool. No lecithin, salt or artificial or natural flavours. The exact distribution of ingredients is as follows: Cocoa mass 25%, milk powder 21%, cocoa butter 19%, which leaves 35% for the raw cane sugar.

The blue color of the box is a happy coincidence, since Finland's most popular chocolate uses the color in their wrappers and the chocolate name. Nothing wrong with the color of the box, but I have a slight problem with the font used in the name of the chocolate. Does it look childish to anyone else? A more elegant font might have been what the name requires. The surprisingly light brown bar only has a small engraving of a cocoa pod combined with a W on it.

44% is a pretty high cococa content for milk chocolate. With that in mind the aroma of the chocolate is not very strong cocoa-wise, but it has a slight metallic aroma to it. I've noticed the same with other darker milk chocolates. Anyone know what causes it, or is it just the Venezuelan cocoa?

Like in the two previous Willie's Cocoa dark chocolates, I once again find the texture a little floury (but not as much as to call it grainy). This milk chocolate is of course softer and melts faster in my fingers and mouth than the darker chocolates, but the texture is basically just as pleasing.

Yep, this sure is milk chocolate. I instantly feel a need to chew the chocolate as I would any milk chocolate or candy. After being focused on dark chocolates the last couple of years this tastes bland. I miss the vibrant flavours of the cocoa with all its twists. This (and again, I mean it in the nicest possible way) tastes like sugar and caramel. There's nothing wrong with this chocolate as milk chocolates go, but I see that I require more cocoa to get my engine going. If I want milk chocolate in the future, I will spend my money on the cheaper (but not the cheapest) supermarket stuff, because the taste difference isn't really that huge.

The aftertaste is not as sweet as I expected. There is a metallic flavour, which is even stronger in the aftertaste than it was in the aroma, but I don't like it. No real cocoa flavour is left at this stage, if there ever was any.

Ingredients: Raw cane sugar, cocoa mass, milk powder & cocoa butter

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Willie's Cacao Venezuelan gold Rio Caribe 72%

Willie's chocolate bars are square shaped. I don't really have an opinion if that's good or bad, but at least it's different. The only negative thing I would say about the wrapper (which is going into my collection) is the blue color used in parts of the text. Either my eyes are failing me or it is difficult to read off the brown background, especially on the backside. The golden bag surrounding the bar looks nice. The bar itself is one block of chocolate with a logo decoration on top. There are no hints as to where I could break off a piece, so I'll just use my imagination and the strength I have in my fingers. Overall this looks very nice and distinguished.

Now, I have to tell you that I've had a bit of a dry spell concerning chocolate, my stash has been empty. Sniffing away at this chocolate makes me want to inhale it through my nose. It smells very chocolatey in every way. I don't get any very strong individual aromas, maybe a bit of fruityness and another bit of... who cares! I have to put this in my mouth right now!

For such a small bar it's quite thick and you really need to have some strength in your fingers when breaking apart pieces. The chocolate melts into a thick liquid which feels very nice. It is however not quite as smooth as it could be. I feel a slight floury texture all around, but having said that, I really love the feel of the melted chocolate.

The chocolate releases flavour immediatly after touching my tongue. I notice the fruityness I got in the aroma disappeared somewhere between my nostrils and tongue. The cocoa taste is powerful and strong, but not bitter at all. I taste dirt (the clean kind) and nuts, maybe almonds. There is aboslutely no fruityness here, only earthy flavours, which is a bit of a shame, because I happen to love fruity chocolates. There's nothing "wrong" with this chocolate, it's just missing the final touch.

The aftertaste is at least as powerful as the flavour was, wow! In addition to the strong earthy taste, the chocolate has also left a coating of thick chocolate liquid in my mouth and that makes the aftertaste last a long, a la la la long (sing along!) time.

Ingredients: Cocoa mass, raw cane sugar & cocoa butter

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