Maker's Choice, Asochivite with Maple

Maker's Choice, Asochivite with Maple

$18.00
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Maker's Choice, Asochivite with Maple

Maker's Choice, Asochivite with Maple

$18.00
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Guatemala, 70% Cacao, 55g Bar

To craft this World-Final-Winning bar we start with our directly sourced Asochivite cacao and add locally made maple sugar from Severance Maple in Northfield, MA.

Milt Severance harvests maple sap from trees on his property, as well as the surrounding area, and then granulates it in his own evaporator.  We tried many difference maple sugars before choosing Milt's, and its robust maple flavor is the perfect complement to the bright, fruity flavors for the Asochivite cacao.

We source the beans for this bar from the Q’eqchi Maya farmers of San Juan Chivite, Guatemala, who harvest the cacao fruit from wild trees surrounding their village.  They also ferment and dry their own beans at tow different facilities they built in their village, which allows them to carefully control the fermentation and drying process.

This bar is crafted with freshly pressed Asochivite cocoa butter for intense single origin flavor and exceptional smoothness.  We're one of the only chocolate makers in the country to press our own cocoa butter, and it makes a world of difference in flavor.

For more information about the cacao we use for this bar check out our Asochivite page.

For more information on fine flavor cacao, our personal approach to direct sourcing and our unique chocolate making process please visit our Fine Cacao, Our Chocolate and Our Process pages.


Tasting notes:  This bar has delightfully bright fruit flavors of green banana and mango, with the sweet taste of dark maple syrup.  Think French toast!

 Pairings:  For cheese pairing selections please visit our Tastings & Pairings page.


Ingredients: Single Origin Cacao Beans, Maple Sugar, Freshly Pressed Cocoa Butter
Soy Free, Gluten Free, Not Alkalized, No Lecithin, Vegan

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Shinn-Te Chou
Wonderful flavor, 5

Wonderful flavor, 5 star!

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Lisa
I love the way the maple sugar and the cacao flavor are in perfect balance.

Bright and light but still has some body to it.

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Susan Smith
Exceptional!

My favorite, along with Brown Butter. These guys apparently know things about chocolate others don’t - their bars are incredibly delicious, melt in your mouth, complex & unique. Have a piece every morning now … addicted.

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Sherry Vatter
yummy!

The addition of maple sugar to the excellent chocolate produces a delicious, well balanced bar that delivers a warm embrace when a 'pick me up' is needed. A hit!

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Ron Susi
Best Ever Chocolate

I was introduced to Goodnow Farms chocolate by my golfing partner as we were playing golf. He gave me a piece of Brown Butter and it was delicious. Couldn't wait for him to offer me another piece. So when he got out of the golf cart to hit his ball, the remaining chocolate was calling to me to take another piece which I did to shut the chocolate bar up. Needless to say the bar was eaten by us and other members of the other golf cart. I immediately ask for the wrapper so that I find the Goodnow web site and order some more of this outstanding chocolate. I ordered 8 bars of various flavours and they arrived in short order in box with the chocolate protected in a thermal rape.

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Janice M Foote
This bar is mapleicous!

Their use of high quality maple sugar complements and enhances the natural occurring dark chocolate flavors in this bar, without overpowering it. The bar itself is smooth, dark and delicious.
Try it, you'll love it!

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Keiko Novack
Yummy

I am addicted
I even have them for breakfast

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Lynn Denis
Mmmmm!

I am a chocolate addict, i have tried a TON of chocolate and i travel a lot so i have tried chocolate all around the world as well. When i recently first tried this brand i was pretty devastated, because 1. How will i ever enjoy other chocolate again? and 2. How will i be able to afford the amount of chocolate i want from this place? hehehe It is amazing and i think part of it is because they use their own cocoa butter that isn't deoderized. I think it leaves a taste that you can't taste in most bars. ANYWAY, about the maple bar. It is very well balanced. You taste the chocolate taste 100% at first which is so great, and then you taste the maple come on stronger at the end. So it is like 2 in one. I suggest you eat these bars under 75 degrees when they have a nice snap to them. I got my bars when it was super hot and my apt was really hot and the bars were soft, so it tastes diff. Much better when at a cooler temp. Enjoy.

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The Chocolate Ambassador
Maple Sugar Dark Chocolate

The chocolate bar looks perfect, and it is well tempered. The texture is smooth and creamy. On the palate, the maple sugar flavor is straightforward delivering its characteristic sweet caramelized nuttiness. Following, you can detect tropical fruitiness such as creamy mango, sour yet floral white peach, floral, green banana subtle "unripe" sweetness. The distinctive quality of this tasting experience is the MYRCENE presence on the nose and on the palate. Myrcene is a terpene that gives to cannabis a mild sweet flavor profile that you can find in mangoes, too. In this case, the charming herbaceous aroma is immediate with musky softness followed by a slight earthy bitterness and a light touch of vanilla. Fantastic complexity!

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Alan Millner
Just enough maple

The Asochivite chocolate is just great all by itself, so I was hesitant to try it with an additive. But the maple is just a subtle addition that integrates perfectly with the main flavor. What a treat!

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The Chocolate Ambassador
Asochivite with Maple

Sadly, I did not try their Asochivite Guatemala 77%. Therefore, I have no basis for comparison but this inclusion is good.

Needless to say, the chocolate bar looks perfect, and it is well tempered. The texture is smooth and creamy.

On the palate, the maple sugar flavor is straightforward delivering its characteristic
sweet caramelized nuttiness. Following, you can detect tropical fruitiness such as creamy mango, sour yet floral white peach, green banana subtle "unripe" sweetness

The distinctive quality of this tasting experience is the MYRCENE presence on the nose and on the palate.

Myrcene is a terpene that gives to cannabis a mild sweet flavor profile that you can find in mangoes, too. In this case, the charming herbaceous aroma is immediate with musky softness followed by a slight earthy bitterness and a light touch of vanilla.

Fantastic!

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Christine
Beyond Divine

Definitely one of the best chocolates bars I’ve had in a long time, and I work at a chocolate company in New England that shall remain un-named!

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Jane Shinberger
The Title fits perfectly as The Flavor Notes are so unique that you want them to last for as long...

I love, love this bar as it has a Taste that invites you in to a point that you want the flavor to last forever!! I also love that on our Tour that I got to have one of the taste samples,& I just wish that WE your followers could be able to purchase them as well as I thoroughly enjoyed that little morsel!!!!!

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Debs
Exquisite

I think maple sugar is probably the best sweetener for good chocolate. I highly recommend this bar.

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James Lucado

Asochivite with Maple

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Zoe Pollak
Superb

Irresistibly smooth and perfectly sweet (the maple isn't overpowering but you can definitely taste it). Very delicate.

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Jennifer Frederick
Delicious

Better than I expected. Very smooth, and there are not sugar crystals in the chocolate if you're wondering.

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jennifer goodnow
Amazing!

I love all the Goodnow chocolates and this is no exception. It hits all the right flavor notes and the quality is clear in the taste.

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Charles Kaplan
Maple Sugar

A big hit w/ me! Much enjoyed. Furthermore, Goodnow’s customer service ethos is impressive.

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Gillian Cohen-Boyer
Every bar I've tried is amazing

I found the Brown Butter bar so unique, I ordered 5 more to see if that was just a fluke. Every bar has been creamy and delicious and I loved the Maple Sugar one. The Brown Butter may still be my favorite, but this is a close second.

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Joseph Fantasia
A special Gift

This product is special from beginning to end. We use it for gifts when we want to impress our friends that appreciate the best. Warning; it his addictive. It is worth every penny.

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Susan Novich
The.Best.Chocolate.Ever.

Another delightful and delicious Goodnow Farms chocolate!

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Luana Rubin
Subtle Maple Goodness

You might wonder if this was extra sweet because of the title, but it is really more of a subtle complex flavor. The combination of Guatemalan and maple flavors is delicious and unique.

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Deborah Krajcik
Delicious!

The best sugar free chocolate!

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Suzanne Atryzek
Best Chocolate available

I love Goodnow Chocolates and would always pick them as my number one choice!

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Diana Chyung
Loved this

I highly recommend this one... wonderful flavors.

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Melissa Burris
70% Maple Sugar bar is amazingingly complex

I discovered Goodnow Farms chocolate on a trip to the Catskills last year and was given several of my favorite - the 70% Maple Sugar Asochivite - by my husband for our anniversary last week. Since he'd never tried it before, I set up a blind test test for both of us, using the 70% Maple Sugar Asochivite along with 2 of my other favorite craft-made dark bars. Both of us picked the Goodnow bar as the best - it wasn't even close. I usually prefer 80% or more cacao, but the complexity of this 70% bar surpasses many in that darker category, making it my #1 pick of ALL dark chocolate.