The Flavor Wheel
TCHO “Chocolatey” is rich, smooth, and intensely chocolatey—a perfect expression of the deep flavorful beans from Ghana. You may discern fudgy caramel notes dancing with malty, roasty and earthy undertones.
Far from the classic conception of fruity-tasting chocolate, which includes strong notes of brown fruit like raisins and prunes, TCHO “Fruity” is full of bright red berry flavor, cherry and raspberry taste bursting on your tongue, with just a hint of raisin for nostalgia.
More subtle than “Chocolatey” and “Fruity”, TCHO “Nutty” is pure and complex, with the rich flavor of roasted nuts accented with hints of dark roasted coffee and toasted biscuit.
“Citrus” chocolate has a delicate cocoa flavor that evolves into a lively citrusy zing on your tongue and ends with a light, smooth sour cream finish. Delightful!
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TCHO’s core product principle is flavor. We use our Flavor Wheel to tune each of our chocolates. It’s our roadmap as we hunt the world for the beans we need. The flavor wheel also serves to help you discover your chocolate in a common-sense way.
What it means to be flavor-driven.
At TCHO, we prefer to differentiate our bars by flavor rather than percentage (70%, if you were wondering) and origin. The reason for this is simple: it’s common sense.
Let’s say you’ve just plopped down with a good book and a bar of chocolate that has “60%” written on the front. Before you bite into it, what insight does the number give you? That the bar will be dark chocolate, but not super-dark? Unless it’s a bar that you eat all the time, you probably won’t have a very good idea of how it might taste based on this number.
Now let’s say you plop down with the same book, but a bar of TCHO “Fruity” chocolate. You’ll know its dark (that’s all we make), and you’ll know the chocolate will taste fruity. Maybe you even picked out the bar because you like fruit in chocolate, and wanted to see just how much chocolate can taste like fruit on its own.
We want you to be a knowledgeable enthusiast, since without context and meaning complete enjoyment of chocolate is impossible. The point of flavor-driven chocolate is to intelligently experiment with flavors that we have coaxed out of the chocolate, and to make it easier to discover chocolate you love.
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