Grenada Chocolate Company 71%

Our thoughts are with the folks at Grenada Chocolate Company, whose leader and founder Mott Green passed unexpectedly last month.

May 2013 Cacao Connoisseur’s Club Selection

Grenada Chocolate Company 71%Name:  71%
Producer:  Grenada Chocolate Company, Grenada
Origin:  Grenada
Notes: Raw, Organic

Cacao Connoisseur’s Club Liner Notes

Darkish silver-brown
Snaps crisply in your fingers;
A shard for tasting.

Tropic pineapples,
Yellow curry, bananas
Sticky on your tongue.

Fruit unfolds, grassy
In your lower cheeks & throat;
Tingly acid fizz.

Flavors expanding,
Chocolate fills your senses
Leaving only dark.

Tasting Notes

April 15, 2013. Dark and shiny yellow-brown with an intense snap. I don’t sense a lot of cocoa butter; this chocolate starts sticky on the tip of the tongue. Initial flavor is bright with delicate notes of banana, pineapple and yellow curry. A grassy banana-pineapple unfolds mostly in the lower cheeks and back of the throat and the overall experience in is strong and pervasive with a good bit of acidity and surprisingly little bitterness. The taste holds solid in the mouth for a long time with little fluidity, and the aftertaste doesn’t significantly change once the flavor has developed.