Whittard of Chelsea - Uganda 80 Dark Chocolate

The tasting notes reflect my personal opinion.

Name

Uganda 80 Dark chocolate
Main ingredients are cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla flavouring
Cocoa content: minimum 80% cocoa solids

Manufacturer

Manufactured in Belgium for: Whittard of Chelsea (Whittard Trading Limited), Windrush House, Windrush Industrial Park, WITNEY, Oxfordshire, OX29 7DX, United Kingdom

Packaging

The chocolate is wrapped and sealed in shiny plastic wrap. This package of 90g in then placed in a cardboard envelope.

Look

The colour of the chocolate is very dark brown and black.

Sound

The chocolate breaks with a clear "snap" sound.

Smell

The smell is surprisingly light with sweet, nutty aromas and an earthy note.

Mouthfeel

The chocolate quickly melts into a liquid that feels slightly floury and also has a very few larger bits.

Taste

The initial taste is bitter, earthy and perhaps charred. This is added by some bark flavours but also sweetness from the sugar.

Aftertaste

The aftertaste is dominated by bitter and earthy notes as well as some lingering sweetness.

Summary

This is an earthy, bitter, very dark chocolate but also with a noticeable sugary sweetness.

Verdict

The chocolate is not well conched resulting in a partly floury mouthfeel and some small bits in the chocolate. The flavour is bitter, earthy and has hints of something charred but there is still some marked sweetness in the chocolate to counter the cocoa. 1 Star.

Dates

Lot number: L15258, best before September 2016, tasted 13 February 2016