SOMA – Creole Gardens Haiti 55% Milk

TASTING NOTES

This delightful 55% milk bar from Canadian chocolate maker SOMA is a fantastic example of high-cocoa milk chocolate, giving the great taste experience of craft chocolate and the moreish sweetness of milk chocolate. In this case, a smooth melt brings out sweet notes of malted caramel. Compare it with SOMA’s Creole Gardens 70% Dark, made with the same beans but producing fruity-sweet, floral hints. 

ABOUT THE MAKER

SOMA Chocolatemaker was founded in 2003 by Cynthia Leung and David Castellan. From modest beginnings working out of a tiny corner of a former whisky distillery, Cynthia and David’s clear-minded focus and commitment to working only with the finest beans has earned SOMA a formidable reputation among craft chocolate lovers. SOMA now has a number of outlets across Toronto, and if you’re ever visiting the city we highly recommend a visit to one of their shops. You can enjoy a warming drinking chocolate in winter or a creamy ice cream in summer, and you can also buy SOMA’s filled chocolates, which are only available locally but are talked about around the world for their creative combinations of ingredients and quirky takes on current food trends.

THE BEANS

The cocoa for this bar was sourced from Produits des Iles SA (PISA), a central fermentery established in northern Haiti in 2012. PISA works with 1,104 small-scale farmers – 492 of whom are women – to pay premium prices for the unprocessed cocoa harvest and then processing it centrally, allowing farmers to earn more money for their quality beans.

Allergens*

May contain cereals containing gluten, may contain peanuts, may contain soybeans, milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Organic cacao nibs, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter, milk powder, salt

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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