Chocolate Cravings: Oaxaca to Naga!

Vosges, the company that makes the Black Pearl Bar, makes many other chocolate bars with interesting flavor combinations. This week, as part of my "chocolate journey'" I tried the Oaxaca Bar and the Naga Bar.


Unlike the Black Pearl Bar, the Oaxaca Bar acquired its zip from fruity quajillo and subtle pasilla chilies. And with 75% cacao from Tanzanian bittersweet chocolate, it packed a punch indeed! But not the knock you in the chest and land you on your back kind of punch. This is the friendly fist to your upper arm kind of tease.

And how appropriate to name it for the land of the "moles," sauces that entice the palate by blending chocolate with chilies. 


The Naga Bar is more like a gentle kiss. Its 41% milk chocolate is much more subtle than the 75% bittersweet chocolate of the Oaxaca Bar. The sweet curry and nutty coconut flavors create a fitting homage to this far eastern area of India that fits snuggly between Assam and Myanmar.


Nagaland's mountainous terrain and people with a distinctively East Asian appearance pull me to find out more about the area. It is famous for wonderful beads and according to Katrina at Vosges, a beaded necklace from Nagaland inspired the Naga Bar.