Posted @withregram • @cocoaencounters It’s #tttt_s week and time to savour some S related bars that have been waiting patiently in my stash to be selected. My first is a taste of the sea. 🌊 When I think of chocolate and the sea, images of tropical coast lines, Caribbean and South Sea islands are the first to play out in my mind, but then come the gifts of the sea: sea salt and even more so, smoked sea salt are among my favourite inclusions (@duffyschoc bar at the top); I have also enjoyed Irish seaweed in a @nearynogschocolate bar and the sea vegetable, wakame in a @jasperandmyrtle bar and of course the Thai Curry Shrimp in the @fuwanchocolate white bar - a marmite bar if ever there was one! I also see the @cocoarunners tasting wave too. 🍫🌊 Then I see the Solkiki bar, made with samphire picked not far from the Solkiki HQ in Dorset. The Lincolnshire coast where I live, is famous for its samphire beds. They have appeared on Ordnance Survey maps since the late 19th century. Trips to the coast to pick samphire or ‘poor man’s asparagus’ are a family activity in late summer and eaten fresh it is a perfect replacement for asparagus. So I can’t want to try it: The Palo Blanco chocolate has a bold full bodied aroma: deep chocolate and plums with some brighter fruit and a floral edge I think or am I just seeing the sea-lavender in my mind. The salt hits you first, but it is then swirled around by red fruit, cherries, cream and malty hot chocolate. This is definitely a #meltnotmuch inclusion bar. As the chocolate ebbs and flows away the remnants of the salty samphire remain, waiting to be collected and crushed between your teeth with the most satisfying crunch to reveal yet more waves of salt and memories of walks along the Lincolnshire marsh and coast. Spectacular ❤️❤️🍫🍫🌊🌊 https://www.instagram.com/p/COxyuYxjBMq/?igshid=ahma4ydaoyyf
