Taza Chocolate Organic Amaze Bar Deliciously Dark 70%, 10 Count

Exactly what i ordered!Good quality dark chocolate that is great tasting.

Years ago, a friend gave me some stone-ground chocolate from Oaxaca. I grew to love the taste and texture of that chocolate and searched for comparable chocolate. I discovered the Taza disks, and then the Taza bars. Since I like to research what I'm eating, I visited the Taza website to learn more about the chocolate. I learned a lot about the process, which is impressive in these days when large conglomerates own many of the chocolate companies.The Deliciously Dark is my favorite Taza chocolate, but I also like others. For a number of years, I ordered my Taza Deliciously Dark chocolate bars from Vitacost, but Vitacost has been purchased by iHerb, which apparently doesn't sell Taza chocolate in the summer. So, I decided to order a box of Deliciously Dark bars from Amazon during Prime Days--a great value, too. After I ordered, I was worried when the weather grew warmer, but my worry was in vain. The box of ten bars arrived directly from Taza in a silver insulated bag that also contained an ice pack. The bars were still cool to the touch. Wow, amazing customer service!If you like delicious stone-ground chocolate made from ethically-sourced organic cacao with low heavy metals, these chocolate bars are for you. If you don't know whether you like stone-ground chocolate, try one. Yes, they're gritty--they're stone ground--but let a small piece melt in your mouth and savor the deep rich taste. If it's not your cup of tea (bad metaphor, I know), move on to something that suits you. Whatever the case, don't write a review about stone-ground chocolate and complain that it is stone-ground chocolate!

People are complaining about the texture but I don’t mind it. If anything it’s something different than the usual.

Wow! I didn’t know what I was missing until I tried Taza’s unrefined, stone ground, organic chocolate. The flavor, freshness and quality really stand out, like trying fresh, artisan bread for the first time. I had this 10 minutes ago and have a lingering aftertaste where the mild sweetness intermingled with the rich chocolate flavor hints at cinnamon and raspberry, but it isn’t flavored. Those flavor notes are from the chocolate pods themselves. The stone ground texture is very even, like chewing ground hazelnuts (there’s no hazelnut flavor).I bought this after reading the Consumer Reports article on lead and cadmium in chocolate, where the Taza brand was the best rated organic dark chocolate for much lower traces of those metals.I’m hooked.

good quality and tasty