Coromandel chocolate Toasted Coconut Rough with Passionfruit

Coromandel Chocolate is a chocolate maker that is new to us, so we were excited to pick up a few bars from them at the Choc Stock festival.

Coromandel Chocolate is a family owned business in Whangamata, New Zealand.  They make their chocolate from beans sourced from Malekula in Vanuatu Archipelago.  They use earth conscious packaging and ethical ingredients.

The first bar to taste:  A milk chocolate, Toasted Coconut Rough with Passionfruit.

Joni is a coconut rough fan, Joey is not, so you will  get both sides with this one.
This is certainly a coconut rough with lots of coconut.  Sugar is the 2nd listed ingredient, but it is suprisingly only slightly sweet.  It is tangy.  The passionfruit gives a tangy dried fruit flavour with just a hint of passionfruit taste.  We like that the passionfruit is not a strong flavour.  Sometimes passionfruit in chocolate can  be a bit overpowering and sickly, but here it is a nice and gives the coconut rough an added yumminess.... if you like coconut rough.  The chocolate flavours are a very mild backdrop.  If you like coconut rough,  then this is nice.  If you are not a coconut rough fan, this won't change your mind.