Comments on: Lindt Excellence Cuba 55%

By: Ronald Hill

Ronald Hill — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:32:42 +0000

I bought some on eBay from Canada in about 2005-6; it was marked “best before June 2007″. It was mailed, however, from a US border city and when I wanted to get more the store was off the Internet. I have been to Baracoa, Cuba, and it is, indeed, the best chocolate I know.

By: Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:12:37 +0000

That unusual taste is cigars. Honestly, they’re a slight tobacco, cigar tobacco undertone to this stuff. The soils that give cuban tobacco its flavour also every so slighly alter the taste of the cacoa beans that make this stuff.

It was sold in Canada for about 2 years (2006-2007 or so), then vanished to be replaced by stuff from Peru or something. Pity. It was my favoirite of the three.

I’m guessing it had something to do with wanting to sell this line in the US where anything from Cuba is banned.

By: anabels

anabels — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:15:29 +0000

Cocao beans have distinct flavours of their own like grape varieties – that is where the fruit notes come from the beans themselves. Which is the whole reason behind single origin chocolate ditto for coffee bean too.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:37:16 +0000

I bought mine in a UK supermarket.
I would imagine they’re very available. The package notes are in French and German.

By: Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:40:43 +0000

Where can we find a package of this bar? Sounds great. I’ve actually eaten chocolate from Cuba, but had to go there to do that. Now I run a news service about Cuba on the internet, though chocolate isn’t the reason for the news service.

Actually, my dad and his parents used to live there.

Lindt makes great chocolate anyway.

Thanks for the note!

Walter Lippmann