Price: $12.95
Place of Purchase: Compartes Store, Brentwood, CA
The limited edition bar is a single origin bar from Bolivia and part of Compartes's World Series collection. For those keeping score at home, it is bar #15.
The packaging, like all Compartes bars, is eye-catching and pretty. To be fair, this particular box art is a bit pedestrian and might initially seem like you are getting a souvenir from a zoo, but it is a "Wild Cocoa" bar. It is definitely not the modern, chic packaging that I prefer and is common among bars of this expense. The inner shinny wrapping is more functional than artistic but I do like the simple stamping of "Compartes Chocolatier 1950" on the wrapping. (I wonder if, in 1950, they ever dreamed of selling such a product?)
It is an 80% bar and thus is not for everyone, I suspect. Being a high-percent bar, the melt is fantastic. As pleasing as any bar that I have tried. It has an excellent finish that stays with you offering just the taste of chocolate and little in the way of other flavors. Happily, the bar, despite its high percentage of cacao, does not have a bitter aftertaste, like, say, Mast Brothers of Brooklyn. I wonder if this is true of most single-origin bars? Eating the bar offers a pleasingly light experience--like a cloud.
The bars have the typical Compartes partitions that offer many little triangles that can be happily broken off and melted in your mouth and two large triangles with the name of the chocolatier.
High-priced, excellent 85-gram bar.
Compartes Wild Cocoa 80% Bolivia
**** (out of 4)
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