Michel Cluizel- Los Ancones, 67% cocoa, single estate bar

If you like oaked wine, you'll like this Michel Cluizel bar! It has a nice fragrance that immediately reminds me of a good Pinot Noir, very farmy and fresh. Lovely colour, a nice shade of red. Good, clean snap!

The first bite was perfect, it has a warm tone with a touch of wood and mushroom. The taste was very rich in berries (perhaps dried cherries), and a light touch of yellow fruits. The bar melt smoothly on the tongue, with a wonderful finish that lingered for a good five 5 seconds. If I get to pick the perfect bar of chocolate for the winter, this is the one!

I would pair this with the 2006 Chateau la Jaugue, an excellent award winner vintage wine with soft berry fruit flavours. The drink is of a classic Bordeaux style, the fragrance is not overwhelming and would compliment the fruitiness and spiciness in the chocolate bar.

Note from the Chocolate Trading Company:

'The Michel Cluizel Los Ancones, single origin chocolate bar is created from an exquisite blend of Trinitario cocoa beans grown at the Los Ancones plantation, on the island of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean. The Los Ancones dark chocolate bar holds a deliciously complex assortment of fresher fruit flavours including apricot, peach and even green olive. Los Ancones is one of seven, single estate chocolate bars created by the renowned Michel Cluizel.'