{"id":18,"date":"2008-12-31T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-12-31T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T17:57:16","slug":"2-bachhalm-1928-die-suse-leidenschaft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"#2: Bachhalm 1928 &#8211; Die s\u00fc\u00dfe Leidenschaft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bachhalm 1928: Die suesse Leidenschaft\" src=\"http:\/\/kory.smugmug.com\/photos\/445229118_T3rNn-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the second bar to share my impressions on, we have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bachhalm.at\/bereiche\/produkte\/frameset.htm\">Bachhalm<\/a> 1928: <span id=\"breadcrumb\" style=\"visibility: visible; opacity: 1;\"><span class=\"BreadCrumb-5\">Die s\u00fc\u00dfe Leidenschaft<\/span><\/span>, which means &#8216;The Sweet Passion&#8217;.\u00a0 This is a handmade, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toytowngermany.com\/lofi\/index.php\/t43389.html\">fine chocolate<\/a> bearing the distinction of &#8216;Grand Cru&#8217;, a term <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_cru\">borrowed from the wine world<\/a>, but in terms of chocolate means &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenibble.com\/REVIEWS\/MAIN\/CHOCOLATE\/glossary2.asp#grand\">made with beans of a specific region<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 According to Bachhalm,\u00a0 that means Criollo beans (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chocolate\">the rarest and most expensive bean used in only 5% of all chocolate<\/a>) from &#8220;the best growing regions and plantations in the world, 10 degrees to the north and south of the equator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, enough history!\u00a0 What does it taste like?\u00a0 Well, this &#8216;Sweet Passion&#8217; bar is lightly topped with clusters of sea salt <a href=\"http:\/\/sverigeapotek.se\/\" style=\"color: #333; border-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal\">http:\/\/sverigeapotek.se\/<\/a>.\u00a0 The intense punch of the salt pierces through the sweet milk chocolate and enhances the taste of the chocolate itself.\u00a0 The chocolate itself is wonderful, a simple milk chocolate that tastes less of cocoa and more of cream but leaves with a lingering, persistent reminder.\u00a0 The chocolate melts easily.\u00a0 I have another Bachhalm bar upcoming, so stay tuned for that impression, too.<\/p>\n<p>Next up?\u00a0 Chocolate and Vinegar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second bar to share my impressions on, we have the Bachhalm 1928: Die s\u00fc\u00dfe Leidenschaft, which means &#8216;The Sweet Passion&#8217;.\u00a0 This is a handmade, fine chocolate bearing the distinction of &#8216;Grand Cru&#8217;, a term borrowed from the wine world, but in terms of chocolate means &#8220;made with beans of a specific region&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,13,11,10],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chocolate","tag-bachhalm","tag-criollo","tag-grand-cru","tag-sea-salt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idlespeculation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}