Review: Lake Champlain Organic Sea Salt & Almonds Milk Chocolate Bar

We're pretty excited about this bar - it is truly excellent. It has relatively high cocoa-content for milk chocolate (38%), plus roasted organic almonds and gray sea salt. Yes, we said sea salt. So imagine a killer piece of milk chocolate, stimulating your palate with its creaminess and chocolate flavor, melting nicely in your mouth giving you plenty of time to enjoy it.

Now...imagine during that melting time, you get intermittently surprises by a salty flavor. Not salty like table salt, but subtle saltiness that makes your taste buds feel like they're at a killer party where you have the perfect mix of friends, music, food and drink. Then...when the party is dying down, you get a little extra bonus in the crunchy almond bits. That's about how you feel eating this piece of chocolate.

The milk chocolate, like its plain sibling, has just the right amount of cocoa butter, so its still a strong chocolate taste. We were split in the chocolate category, I loved the chocolate but my lovely wife didn't like it as much as the plain milk chocolate bar - which is interesting because this bar has more cocoa content and she is a dark chocolate person. But we wholeheartedly agreed on the savory notes from the sea salt and the slight crunch from the almonds. The salt stimulates your taste buds and amplifies all the other flavors in the bar.

I could eat this chocolate until I got sick. And like all Lake Champlain Organic Chocolates, these are all-natural, Kosher, gluten free, and 100% Organic Chocolate certified by QAI.

Check out Lake Champlain's Organic Chocolates here.

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Posted by Bob Wallace at February 15, 2008 8:57 AM

Wow! Thanks for such a stellar review! It's a wonderful treat each time I come across entries and write ups like this. This bar is my favorite and if I dare visit my mother (who only lives 10 minutes away) without bringing her a couple, she swears she's going to disown me. It's her favorite too! So chocolatey and the sweet/salty balance tickles me. Thanks again for the great words. I hope our products always meet your expectations. Keep up the great blog! We always read it here at LCC.

Posted by: Leann at February 15, 2008 10:24 AM