These tasting notes are mainly as an aide memoir for me, as I can never remember which brands that I like, or perhaps more importantly do not like. Over time I am hoping to build up a substantial database on my ingredients page.
History tells us that chocolate making was invented over 3,000 years ago by the Atzecs and they had several emperors called Montezuma. With such a noble name I would have thought that one could reasonably expect chocolate from the “award winning” Montezuma’s to be something quite special. Sadly not.
I tasted this several days ago and cannot bring myself to have another nibble. The first impression was of sickly sweet chocolate and an overpowering taste and smell of (to my palate) artificial* lime followed by a massively hot kick of chilli, which mercifully obliterated the taste of both the lime and the chocolate.
The blurb on the packet says
Having made this limited edition bar for a famous chilli festival in the beautiful South Downs, we have once again been persuaded by a hard core of loyal customers to make this a permanent resident in the range. Until you taste it words will not do justice to how well this unlikely combination works
I honestly do not like writing bad reviews, but I can only conclude that I am in receipt of a batch where something has gone horribly wrong (Best Before Date 08/09/11) as I cannot imagine how, having tasted it once, anyone would want more of this chocolate. For £2.75 for 100g (Waitrose, Fleet Services) it was an expensive mistake, I would rather have some retro chocolate limes at £1.99 for 250g.
* The ingredients state that the lime is from natural lime oil, so it is not artificial but it certainly did not taste natural to me.
