I was going to write
fewer chocolate reviews from now on, but people actually seem to read them, and this chocolate is something I simply had to
review.
My father and his wife brought me this chocolate from their trip to Slovenia.
That was very thoughtful of them, so thank you! :) It’s dark chocolate
with figs and prosciutto, dry-cured ham – typical products of the
region, says the wrapping. That's an interesting idea! Now, I don’t eat red meat, but I do love
chocolate, so I was conflicted! To eat or not to eat? Well. I can be very curious, especially when it comes to
books and chocolate, so... of course I was going to at least have a bite!
I’ll have to say that I found this
chocolate absolutely beautiful. The white
wrapping has a pretty, fresh style, but when you look at the
chocolate itself... wow! Unfortunately, the thin disc had broken into
pieces during its journey to Finland, but I did try to take a picture
of the lovely pattern on one side:
And, let me indulge
in some more chocolate porn... here’s the other side! With thin
slices of prosciutto, crumbled figs and a bay leaf, it doesn't immediately say "chocolate" (at least not to me) but it is gorgeous, isn’t it?
Now that we've feasted our eyes, let's move on to other senses. I expected this chocolate to have a
somewhat smoky, perhaps even spicy scent, but, though dark and
earthy, the scent is actually rather mellow.
The chocolate has
the cocoa content of 72 % which makes it rather dark – it is
full-bodied, smooth, intense... very lovely chocolate! The figs are
dried pieces drenched in rice flour, they’re a bit
sticky and sweet (naturally) but don’t have a particularly distinctive flavour.
The prosciutto comes in thin slices that are crumbly and mostly just taste salty. I
love the chocolate and salt combination, so I have to say I did enjoy
that, even though I am not a meat eater. During our tasting session,
I picked the piece with the smallest slice of prosciutto – I had
thought of simply picking it out and handing it either to my DH or
DD, but then, the experience would have been incomplete that way, so I just
went ahead and ate it.
This was definitely
an interesting experience – probably the first time I ever tasted
Slovenian chocolate, and I have to say that the combination of
chocolate, fig and prosciutto was also something I’ve never tried
before. I prefer my chocolate without meat, but I’d still say that
the chocolate & prosciutto union was succesful. And the
chocolate itself was delicious!
