Schönenberger - Extra fine dark chocolate

The tasting notes reflect my personal opinion.

Name

Schönenberger - Extra fine dark chocolate (Extra fine bio organic swiss dark chocolate)
Main ingredients are cane sugar, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and vanilla.
Cocoa content: minimum 54% cocoa solids

Manufacturer

Chocolat Schönenberger AG, Täschmattstrasse 10, CH-6015 Luzern, Switzerland

Packaging

The two 50g chocolate bars are wrapped in aluminium laminated paper and a cardboard envelope.

Look

The chocolate has a middle dark-ish brown colour with red hues at the edges.

Sound

The chocolate breaks with a very clear snap sound.

Smell

The smell is mainly a light sweetness with hints of vanilla and tiny hints of cocoa.

Mouthfeel

The thin chocolate slices melt evenly into very smooth and fine liquid.

Taste

The initial flavour is a very light sweetness that is similar to powdered sugar. As the chocolate melts, the sweetness intensifies with vanilla and metal notes. A cocoa note with hints of coffee flavours evolves. However, the sweetness is very intense and overpowers the cocoa.

Aftertaste

The aftertaste is mainly characterised by the sweetness and hints of cocoa that evolve around the rear of the mouth.

Summary

This is a very smooth, thinly sliced chocolate with intense sweetness, cocoa and coffee notes.

Verdict

This chocolate is extraordinarily smooth with no detectable imperfections and a very silk surface. The flavours are dominated by the sweetness. This overpowers a possibly nice complexity of cocoa flavours. 3 Stars.

Dates

Lot number: 16818815E, best before 30/01/2017, tasted 22&23/01&05/02/2017

Schönenberger - Chocolate with rice milk and hazelnuts

The tasting notes reflect my personal opinion.

Name

Chocolate with rice milk and hazelnuts
Main ingredients are cane sugar, cocoa butter, rice glucose syrup 17%, cocoa solids, hazelnut granulate.
Cocoa content: minimum 41% cocoa

Manufacturer

Chocolat Schönenberger AG, Täschmattstrasse 10, CH-6015 Luzern, Switzerland

Packaging

The chocolate is wrapped in aluminum paper and a small cardboard box. Packaging size is 100g.

Look

The chocolate is light brown and pieces of hazelnuts are partly visible.

Sound

The chocolate is surprisingly hard to break and does so with a clear snap sound.

Smell

The chocolate bar smell of sugar and something like perfume.

Mouthfeel

The surface is very smooth. The chocolate melts into a doughy liquid before dissolving finely.

Taste

Initially, the chocolate tastes very sweet with a distinct almost perfume-like flavour. After melting, the hazelnuts contribute only little to the flavour.

Aftertaste

The aftertase is dominated by the sweetness and a hint of the perfume like flvour.

Summary

This is a rather sweet chocolate with hazelnuts. The flavour is mainly is sweet with a distinct flavour which might be from the rice milk.

Verdict

The Swiss chocolate lacks the typical richness of Swiss milk since it relies ob rice milk, They surface and smoothness of the rice milk was well mastered. However, its flavour is still challenging. 1 Star.

Dates

Lot number: 16820215D, best before 30/09/2016, tasted 03&04&10/04/2016