Dark chocolate, a term encompassing both semisweet and bittersweet varieties, boasts bouquets of rich flavor with notes of citrus, nuts, caramel, tropical fruit, and more, which blossom on your tongue as the chocolate slowly melts away.
To find the best dark chocolate in your local shop, look for bars with a range of cocoa solids between 65% and 80%.
According to Megan Giller's Bean-to-Bar Chocolate, one must take it slow. Giller writes to keep an eye out for bloom—the dusty white stuff on the surface of some chocolate bars.
Giller recommends smelling the chocolate before taking a bite to get a sense of some of the flavors you can expect. Next, she suggests biting down on a piece of chocolate a few times before letting it melt on the tongue.
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