I'm learning that the Green & Black's line of chocolate is pretty much unassailable in every way.  Their chocolates are made with organic ingredients, ethically sourced using fair trade to prevent human suffering and slavery, many of their bars are vegan-friendly, and best of all they are delicious.  

Green & Black's is one of the few fair trade chocolates which is available in America.  (Although several mass market chocolate manufacturers like Cadbury and Mars have gone fair trade in the UK, the American versions of their bars are not fair trade.)  They deserve your money for that reason alone, since the atrocities committed in the name of non-fair trade cocoa beans are truly horrific.

The only possible objection anyone could have to Green & Black's is that they do cost quite a bit more than their competitors.  Nearly twice as much, if you stack up a big Green & Black's to, say, a big Cadbury bar.  This is a great example of the way that low costs ruin everything, because the Cadbury bar has nothing going on the Green & Black's.  But at the same time, I usually find myself hesitating, before I finally give in and reach for the cheaper one.

I tell you what, though - you're doing yourself a real disservice.  One thing I have learned with my chocolate sampling activities is that cheap dark chocolate is brittle, it crumbles into shards when you nibble it, which was always my chief objection to dark chocolate.  But good dark chocolate, like you find in a Green & Black's bar, still has that wonderful creaminess that you want from a chocolate bar.

This bar, which is a 60% cocoa dark chocolate, has all that and more: it has ginger.  I love ginger LOVE IT, and therefore I was actually a little disappointed with this bar for not being more ginger-y.  Ginger is one of those things you build up a resistance to, like salt or garlic or spicy foods.  I have that resistance in spades, which means that to me, this was only the faintest hint of ginger.

To any reasonable human being, I'm sure this bar would be wonderfully ginger-y.  It does after all contain little bits of candied ginger, which is frankly delicious.  I would like to see more things have ginger in them, because I had never thought of ginger and chocolate as being a viable combination, but now that I've tried it, I want a lot more.

The ginger gives the chocolate just a touch of heat, although nothing like you would find in a chili + chocolate combination.  That little bit of ginger warmth is a great combination with the dark chocolate.  My only low mark for this bar was the slight grittiness, which is often a hallmark of organic chocolate bars.  Although it might just have been the bits of candied ginger, some of the other organic Green & Black's bars I have tried have had the grit, too.  Not sure what's up with that.  I have actually learned to love the grit, the way I have learned to love the texture at the end of a cup of French press coffee.