Talenti - Dark Chocolate

Dark Chocolate - Dark Chocolate Sorbet with Dark Chocolate Sauce

Today's flavor is a relatively new flavor released earlier in 2020 from Talenti Gelato.  It is a sorbetto called Dark Chocolate.  I am surprised that they had not released a dark chocolate sorbet before this year.  Often sorbets are associated with fruit flavors, but a few flavors like peanut butter, coconut and dark chocolate make for very good sorbets because their flavors supply their own 'butter' or oils which help add a creaminess to the texture with the use of dairy.  Here, Talenti adds a swirl of dark chocolate into the mix as well.  I bought this at a local grocery store (probably Target or Lund's).  Keep in mind that this pint is different than their Double Dark Chocolate flavor.  Double Dark Chocolate is a gelato that uses dairy also has chocolate chip mix-ins.  Today's flavor is a non-dairy sorbet with a swirl of chocolate sauce swirl.

Unscrewing the lid, I see the deep brown color of the chocolate sorbet with a couple of the dark brown swirls of chocolate sauce visible on the top.  I have seen darker colored chocolate bases, but it is still fairly dark.  Digging in, the sorbet does have a creamy texture and not at all icy or slushy -- Talenti does texture well.  The dark chocolate flavor is quite good and tasty.  The swirl of sauce is half blended into the sorbet base.  Instead of creating sections of different texture, it creates darker colored sections in the base which have a more biting chocolate flavor.  This biting flavor reminded me a bit of chocolate syrup that I used to use when I was a kid.  

This is an excellent chocolate sorbet from Talenti.  It has a good chocolate flavor with a good bite to it and it has a creamy texture.  The sauce creates sections which have a more biting flavor to it than the rest of the base, but it's half blended in, so it does not create a different texture.  So, you like to use ice cream as an ingredient in other things (shakes, as a coffee additive, etc), don't worry about the sauce.  I really liked this flavor.  For the mid-premium price, it's hard to beat this implementation.