Sampling Valura chocolate

Valura Chocolate is a family run business which make small batches of ethically sourced, bean to bar, craft chocolate.  They were another booth we visited at the Chocolate and Coffee festival.  They sold on the day little sample bars of each big bar they make, so we bought one of each.

SEMULIKI FOREST UGANDA 70%
There was a nice dark chocolate richness to this.  We found the flavour notes a bit hard to describe.  Slightly woody, a bit of a marmite tang.  It was nice though.
Chocolate Maker notes are: Earthy, nutty with hints of fig and red bean paste.

HAITI 70%
This was a sweeter bar with slight banana and orangey notes.  It ended with a bit of honey flavour.  We really liked this one!
Chocolate Maker notes: Fruitiness, Caramel, Vanilla, Blueberry

PANAMA 70% 
This was a slow burn, but then came in flavour notes of apple, jasmine and slight honey notes.  This was our favourite of them all!
Chocolate Maker notes: Earthy, coffee

The rest of the chocolate used Dominican Republic cacao beans with flavoured inclusions.

LYCHEE
We could taste the lychee and slight caramel notes.  It was almost like a bit like a lollipop, boiled sweet flavour note with a bit of musk at the end.  This was nice.

PLUM
Nice plum.  This had the same caramel notes that come in strong and dark with some honey notes at the end.

RASPBERRY
Strong hit of raspberry first off.  Nice combo with this chocolate, brought out the fruity notes of the chocolate.

PEPPERMINT
Flavoured with peppermint oil.  Not our favourite flavour anyways, but we are not sure this suited the Dominican Republic chocolate fruitiness.

FINAL THOUGHTS
We really like Valura Chocolate.  We are going to buy the bigger bars of Haiti and Panama.  They are definitely in the running to be our favourite single origin bars from those regions.