Vosges Chocolate

Vosges Chocolate also known as Vosges Haut Chocolate is branded as a “luxury chocolate experience” created by Katrina Markoff in Chicago “using original methods of French confectionery artistry which she learned during her training at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.”

It’s fancy all right. In fact, the bars I have today to review are sample bars (not free! $2.50 for 0.05oz-14 grams) and their names can stand alone. Today we are reviewing: Woolloomooloo and the Gianduja Bar.

First up

Wooloomooloo Chocolate Bar

Roasted salted macadamia nuts, Indonesian coconut, hemp seeds and deep milk chocolate at 45% cacao.

Packaging
The cute little box has a photo of all the ingredients (minus the chocolate) and does do me the favor of putting the pronunciation on the box.

Appearance
It looks really, really smooth. It is also very melt-y and has the saying “Inspire the People Around You” embossed into it, which is nice to see. Instead of seeing “Hershey’s” or “Ritter” for once and not on the inside of the foil wrapper.

Appearance Inside
This is a very thin bar, so there’s not a lot to see other than the white specks of macadamia nut.

Taste
It smelled a lot like dark chocolate and at first it tasted a little like dirt but that even right out into a very delicious milk chocolate and salt. The salted bits are concentrated with the macadamia pieces and are heavily salted. The coconut is very subtle, but definitely there and toasted tasting. I haven’t any idea what hemp seed alone tastes like, but I suspect that is what gave it the “earthy” taste at the beginning. I would have liked this a lot more if the salted bits weren’t quite so salty.

Gianduja Chocolate Bar

Almonds, caramelized hazelnuts, deep milk chocolate

Appearance
Same at the Wooloomooloo Bar, but with almond and hazelnut pictures. This chocolate bar is embossed with “luscious” in a very fancy font.

Appearance Inside
Very smooth looking and very faint signs of nuts in this super thin bar.

Taste
I can definitely smell hazelnuts! The chocolate is super milky and the hazelnuts very prevalent. There’s a salty hint, but the Gianduja Bar is much sweeter than the Wooloomooloo Bar. I can’t taste the almonds too much, it’s pretty much all hazelnut running this show, but I most certainly do like it.

Would I pay $2.50 for 14 grams? No. It’s too rich for my blood. Would I give it as a gift to a chocolatier or fancy cooking person? Yes. They would far more be able to appreciate these bars.