Make Father's Day Memorable with Gourmet Chocolate
Father's Day is just around the corner, and it's time to show the special men in our lives just how much they mean to us. While finding the perfect gift can often be a challenge, there is one timeless delight that never fails to impress: chocolate. This Father's Day, go beyond the ordinary and elevate your gift-giving game with gourmet chocolate treats. From exquisite flavors to exquisite craftsmanship, the chocolate discussed in this blog offers an unparalleled experience that will make this Father's Day truly unforgettable.
Raaka Bourbon Cask Aged 82%
They age single origin Tanzanian cacao in bourbon casks for two months, creating a deeply nuanced bar with a cocktail-like vibe: oaky and smooth, with a hint of cherry cordial on the finish. It is their best selling bar and a 2013 Good Food Award Winner.
Tasting notes: Oaky & Cherry
OmNom Dark Milk of Tanzania 65%
This is very dark for a bar of milk chocolate, thick, creamy, with a fudge-like texture and flavor and delicious notes of brown sugar and pears.
Tasting notes: Brown Sugar & Pears
Manoa Rum Bar 75% (Limited Edition)
Showcasing a locally made spirit, Manoa soaks cacao nibs in Kohana rum to create a boozy chocolate experience unique to Hawaiian sugarcane. Kohana rum is some of the world's finest pure cane rums. Heirloom sugarcanes are harvested, hand-pressed, and distilled in small batches to make every single variety bottle.
Tasting notes: Boozy Rum Flavor, Vanilla, Honeysuckle, Creamy & Crunchy Nibs
Ranger Espresso 74% Large
Ranger's Espresso Chocolate Bar strikes a balance between two of our most beloved items on the planet, chocolate, and espresso. They collaborated with some of the best coffee roasters in Portland to produce a warm and welcoming bar. They work with Trailhead Coffee Roasters to pair their Classic Espresso Blend with a 50/50 blend of their cacao from the Tumaco region in Colombia and a new bean they've been working with from forest edge communities surrounding the Gola Rainforest National Park in Sierra Leone.
Tasting notes: Cream & Carmel
Dick Taylor Straight Bourbon Whiskey 70%
For the third release in their Barrel-Aged Chocolate line, they turned to friends from artisan craft distillery; Sonoma Brothers Distilling. Using heavy-char new American oak barrels from their three years aged 'Straight Bourbon Whiskey', they fill and age the highest quality certified heirloom cacao from Belize for six months. The dry-aging process allows the cocoa nibs to absorb the aroma and flavor of the barrel and the spirit. Once fully aged, they use these delicious nibs to handcraft a 70% dark chocolate bar by adding only cocoa butter and cane sugar. The finished chocolate bar is sweet with complex & pronounced oak and bourbon flavors.
Tasting Notes: Oak & Bourbon
Dick Taylor Black Fig Chocolate 72%
Starting with their fruity 72% Malagasy origin chocolate, Dick Taylor adds in chewy bits of dark, rich California black mission figs. The combination makes for unforgettably bright chocolate, rife with notes of dried fruit and deep cacao, and textured with locally-sourced figs.
Tasting notes: Dried Fruit, Deep Cacao, Fig
Ritual Bourbon Barrel Aged 75%
A blend of cacao nibs aged in bourbon whiskey barrels for several months is transformed into this dark chocolate with hints of honey and whiskey. From their home of Park City, Utah, Ritual uses Bourbon Whiskey Barrels from High West Distillery to age the cacao nibs used for this bar.
Tasting Notes: Bourbon Whiskey, Maple Undertones, Sweet Cocoa, Honey & Nougat
Cuna De Piedra Soconusco Chiapas With Mezcal Joven 73% Mini
Young Mezcal is made from 100% Maguey Espadín from Santiago Matatlán, a town located in the central valleys of Oaxaca, considered to be the “world capital of mezcal”. The agaves were crushed into an Egyptian stone mill, known as tahona, the liquid was fermented in oak vats and double distilled in clay pot stills to obtain the freshest citrus and herbal notes, which blend harmoniously with Cuna de Piedra's Soconusco, Chiapas 73%.
Tasting notes: Citrus and Herbal
Ritual Apres Chocolate, Champagne with Raspberries 70%
Whenever there is something to celebrate, Ritual loves to do it with a bottle of bubbly, chocolate, and berries. So they created a chocolate bar that contained them all. They soaked Madagascar cocoa nibs in sparkling white wine in a wine barrel, then grinding those nibs into chocolate and topped it off with dried raspberries.
Tasting Notes: Champagne & Raspberries
Amano Macoris 70%
This is one of their newest single-origin bars. Made with beans from the Dominican Republic this bar has hints of apricot, caramel, brown sugar, and cream all held together with a rich earthy chocolate base.
Manoa Mai'a Banana & Nibs 70%
This inclusion bar is a new creation by Manoa. This bar features vibrant artwork by local artist Shar Tuiasoa of Punky Aloha and delicate molding inspired by Polynesian tattoo patterns. Together with historical tidbits about each inclusion ingredient, the complete package of flavor, art, and culture create three bars that do more than taste good: this is chocolate with a sense of place. A fruit brought by Polynesian settlers on their long voyage to Hawaii, banana is known as one of the canoe plants - crops essential for island living. Mai'a (banana), was used as sustenance, offerings to ali'i (ruling chiefs), and as medicine.
Tasting notes: Banana, Passion Fruit & Coconut
Interested in more Father's Day chocolate? Look no further than our exquisite Father's Day chocolate collection.
To get started with craft chocolate, start with our Kekao Box. We search the world for the finest chocolate bars and bring them right to your doorstep monthly. From rich dark Peruvian chocolate bars to new start-up chocolate bars on the come-up, you never know what you'll get inside the box! Each month we will curate 4 to 5 premium specialty-crafted chocolate bars.
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