Taza Chocolate Organic Amaze Bar 70% Stone Ground, Deliciously Dark, 2.5 Ounce (10 Count), Vegan

Taza offers a unique chocolate experience that I highly recommend. The texture is an enjoyable gritty one that needs to be tried to be properly understood. I've never had a Taza product I didn't enjoy. As I tend to eat a low sugar diet in general, the 95% dark is perfect. The bitter is perfectly balanced by a light sweetness. I have had more complex chocolates, but it isn't bland. The texture, in my opinion, really makes this chocolate bar. My experience with the shipping was good. It looks as though Taza had a local chocolate/cheese company ship the chocolate to me, so it had a short journey to me. The local shop (shout out Caputo's) did a good job insulating the chocolate. I 100% appreciate that Taza did not have the chocolate shipped through an Amazon facility because so little care is put into shipping products from Amazon warehouses. It seems that some people have had issues with their orders being shipped properly, so I hope that this is a practice that Taza is implementing on a broad scale. For anyone concerned about this, I would recommend reaching out to Taza before ordering and seeing how your order would be handled.

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

Tastes butterfly smoothes and rich yet nice bitterness which I like. As 95% cacao, it is well balanced chocolate! Great taste with coffee and red wine

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.

This is a different taste than you're used to, but after trying it I knew for the first time what real chocolate tastes like, bot the creamy goo they sell commercially. I don't get the hate from people because I will keep buying this for as long as I can afford it. This chocolate also tested very low on lead and cadmium on the consumer reports study (if you haven't read it pls google it).