Melt Chocolates Dark Chocolate with Orange

I absolutely loved their milk chocolate bar with Banana I reviewed the other day, but today its the turn of Melt’s Dark Chocolate with Orange Bar.

And this time I’ll try one of their dark chocolate bars. This one is 66% cocoa so it should still be relatively mild and allow the flavour of the orange to come through.

The aroma is very acidic, which isn’t all that pleasant, unfortunately. And despite being only 66%, the dark chocolate flavour is very intense and only the higher notes of the orange come through at the end – at which point your mouth will be left with what feels like the vapour of orange zest and peel. You can even taste the little bits of orange in the bar which certainly does add to the experience. Although, I generally feel misses an opportunity to excite. I expected more orange, and all I got was a slightly zesty dark chocolate bar.

I’m not going to do a full rating on this bar as I was really dissapointed with it. It’s not often that I feel this deflated by a chocolate bar that’s supposed to be of high quality, and certianly after loving their banana bar, but I feel I’ll be overly negative. The price is too high, the flavour unbalanced and the texture the only positive I can take out of the experience. Overall I’ll give it a score of 55%.

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