Schell Praline Chocolate - Red Vineyard Peach 70%, 100g

Praline Chocolate – Red Vineyard Peach

The intense aroma of the red vineyard peach, captured in one of the best distillates from the Hubertus Vallendar distillery. In combination with the finest chocolate, a magnificent taste experience!

The red vineyard peach is featured in this excellent praline chocolate.

It is added in the form of the excellent distillate from the Hubertus Vallendar distillery. But fine pieces of the red vineyard peach can also be found in the chocolate.

In this case, the distillate is a fruit brandy. To produce the brandy, the fruits are pitted and then crushed. Mixed with water, they are placed in a mash tun, and special fermentation yeast is added to accelerate the fermentation process and thus create a higher alcohol concentration. This procedure can take between 3 days and 2 weeks. This depends on the quantity, temperature, and type of mash, as well as how much aroma and alcohol content has already developed. Once the master distiller is satisfied with the mash, it is distilled. The brandy now has an alcohol content between 60 and 90%. As this is too high-proof for consumption, it is diluted with water. Legal regulations specify a volume percentage between 37.5 and 55 percent here. To further improve the aroma, the brandies can be aged for several years in wooden barrels. Further regulations for production include the prohibitions of additional flavoring and the addition of sugar or alcohol. If there is too little sugar in the fruits, no fermentation occurs. However, they can be used for a fruit spirit.

The red vineyard peach originally comes from China. It has been known there for over 4000 years and bears the name 'Sing'. In ancient times, it then came to Southern Europe via Persia and Greece. The Romans then spread the warmth-loving tree to Northern Europe. Thus, it reached the warmest wine-growing regions of Germany. The trees primarily grow in the Moselle region. In the wine-growing areas located there, it was widespread until the 1970s. However, due to agricultural restructuring, it almost completely disappeared. In the 1990s, its unmistakable taste was rediscovered, and reforestation projects were launched in the areas of the Moselle slopes that had been abandoned.

The taste of the red vineyard peach is described as tart, aromatic, and spicy. It is not as sweet as its counterparts.

For this chocolate, the vineyard peach from our own cultivation is cut into thin slices and slowly dried. This further intensifies its red color, as well as its aroma. The dried slices are finely chopped and added to the chocolate ganache of the filling. This creates an additional taste experience when biting into the pieces.

Ingredients

• 20% fine dark chocolate (cocoa 70% minimum, cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soy lecithin, vanilla extract)
• 39% milk chocolate (cocoa 38% minimum, sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier: soy lecithin, vanilla extract)
• Cream
• Cocoa butter
• Peach puree
• 6% peach juice
• 6% vineyard peach brandy
• Dried peaches
• Neutral alcohol
• Glucose
• Salt
• May contain traces of nuts
• Handcrafted.