Tasting Schoc Choc

Schoc Chocolates got our notice by being Coast Chocolate Lovers’ Favourite Artisan Chocolate Company 2021  along with Whittaker’s Chocolate.

Location: Greytown, New Zealand

Schoc Chocolates  have a range of handmade gourmet chocolates and 60 different flavored chocolate tablets.  There is a huge variety of yummies and a lovely gifting range.
The beans are sourced from,  Tanzania, Java, Papua New Guinea, Cuba, Ecuador, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Trinidad, Madagascar and Sao Thome.

Schoc Chocolates was started in December 2002 by Murray Langham, The Chocologist.
The website states,
"Schoc Chocolates is a unique blend of gourmet chocolate and self-exploration. We combine the joy and health benefits of consuming quality chocolate with a deeper understanding of one’s inner self."

With all the different flavors to choose from, we decided it might be easier just to get the Tasting Tile box.
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The Tasting Tile box is beautifully presented, with little dividers, like a tea box for chocolate. There is 30 tiles with 5 of each of the 6 flavors.  It also comes a tasting tile information sheet. The tasting tiles themselves are so cute, like little mini brick molded choc blocks.
We bought it online from their website for $46, which may seem a lot for 150grams of chocolate, but treat it like a tasting experience.  Grab 4 of your friends and have some fun and a chocolate tasting adventure around the table.
Chocolate tablets full sized, are usually $14.99.

​We went from lightest chocolate to the darkest.
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Lemon White

White chocolate with dried lemon.
28% Belgian Cocoa Solids.

It has a strong lemon fragrance with a hint of white chocolate.
It really melts in the mouth.  The taste is lemony and tangy with lots of those yummy dried lemon bits.  You can also get the taste of the white chocolate.  The aftertaste is those tangy lemon bits.

Using the dried lemon rather than a lemon flavor, made this so much nicer. Sometimes lemon chocolate can taste a bit dishwash liquidy, but that was not the case here at all.  This is the nicest lemon chocolate we have tasted.
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Sea Salt

Salty flakes from Maldon crystal sea salt, in Milk Chocolate.
33% Cocoa Solids.

You can smell the cocoa.  There is a slight melt in the mouth. The taste is milky and creamy.  The salt grows as you are eating it.  The aftertaste is salt and a bit of sweetness.
Creamy and salty.  This was a nice chocolate that our tastes leans towards.
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Rose Dark

French Damask Rose in dark chocolate.
Cocoa Solids is 55%.

There is a faint aroma of rose with dark chocolate.  There is a little melt in the mouth.
You can taste the rose and the dark chocolate.  It is a nice balance.  The aftertaste is dark chocolate with a hint of rose.

Joni likes Turkish Delight, so she liked this one a lot.  Johanan liked it even though he isn't a Turkish Delight fan.  
There is a milk chocolate version of this too, which we would like to try.
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Cardamom Dark

Cardamom combined with a 55% dark chocolate.
You can smell the Cardamom.  It doesn't really melt in the mouth.
The taste is strong Cardamom with dark chocolate faintly in the background.  The aftertaste is Cardamom.

This is one we bought in the Big Bruce for.  We were thinking about it and talking about it long after we had finished the tasting.
Joni didn't mind it.  Johanan did not like it.  Big Bruce did not like it either.  
It is different, and as part of the tasting adventure, it was fun to have it in there.  Definitely a chocolate you will be talking about.
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Lime Chilli

Chilli flake infused dark chocolate with lime.
Cocoa Solids 55%

There is a lime aroma.  Only a very slight melt in the mouth.  This is definitely a taste of lime and chilli.  The heat of the chilli grows as you chew and had Johanan doing exclamations of surprise.  The aftertaste is lime and heat.

Joni has had the flavor combo of Chilli and Lime a few times , but it was new to Johanan, and it took him by surprise.  This chocolate had a strong chilli hit, combined with the lime tanginess. We called in Big Bruce for this one too.  
Joni and Bruce liked it.  Johanan did not.
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Coffee Schoc

Freshly roasted coffee with a bitter sweet 70% chocolate.

The aroma is of strong coffee and dark chocolate.  The chocolate is hard and only slightly melts in the mouth.
The taste is a faintly sweet dark bitter chocolate with the coffee in the background.   The aftertaste is the dark bitter chocolate.

Johanan said, that at least it didn't try to kill him like the chilli.  Joni thought it was ok.  We do have our favorite Baron Hasselhoff coffee flavored chocolate which we only discovered recently, so we are comparing all coffee choc to that at the moment.
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Final thoughts

We have only scratched the surface of all the different chocolate you can try at Schoc Chocolates.  It is exciting.  
The chocolate in all the tiles had a nice texture.
This was a fun tasting experience.  We are glad we didn't like it all.  Where is the adventure in that?! 
It took Johanan out of his comfort zone in chocolate flavors, and Joni loved the exploration.
This was a great way to explore a range of chocolate, and we still talk about the Cardamom and Chilli and Lime.
Highly recommend this as a Chocolate tasting experience you can have at home or with a group of friends.
Here is the final rankings from Johanan and Joni.

Johanan's rankings from left to right, best to least.

1. Sea Salt
2. Rose Dark
3. Lemon White
4. Coffee Shot 
5. Cardamom
6. Lime Chilli

Joni's rankings from left to right, best to least.

1. Rose Dark
2. Sea Salt
3. Lemon White
4. Lime Chilli
5. Cardamom
6. Coffee Shot