An Introduction to Flint Chocolate

Flint Chocolate is a small chocolate making business based in Auckland, New Zealand.  Their chocolate bars are made in small batches and the cacao beans are  traditionally stone ground.  Their ingredients are organic and vegan.  They use coconut sugar as a sweetener.

The cacao beans are sourced from specialty cacao farms in the Dominican Republic, Peru and Haiti.

We tried the 60g bars of Wild Blueberry 65%  and Almond Butter 60%.

FLINT CHOCOLATE WILD BLUEBERRY 65%

INGREDIENTS
Organic Cacoa beans
Organic Coconut Sugar
Organic Blueberry Powder
Cocoa Butter
Organic wild blueberries
Dried blueberries with apple juice
Vanilla bean
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The fragrance is earthy and almost coffeeish.  
The taste is dried fruits and treacle notes.  We did pick up some blueberry flavour.  There was a dried fruit sweetness to it.

FLINT CHOCOLATE ALMOND BUTTER 60%

INGREDIENTS
Organic Cacao beans
Organic Coconut Sugar
Organic Almonds
Cocoa Butter
Vanilla Bean
Marlborough Sea Salt

The fragrance is sweet milk with a  slight nuttiness.
The chocolate is smooth and melty.  It has a strong dark chocolate note.
The first taste is salty and tangy, then almond nut comes in as a background along with a good chocolate flavour hit.  The chocolate also has treacle and spent matches flavour notes. 
This was an interesting chocolate and our favourite.  We gave some to Big Bruce too, and he also liked it.

FINAL THOUGHTS
These bars were pleasant and a nice introduction to Flint Chocolate.  They taste healthy and refreshing.  We have our eye on the Olive oil bar next.