I’ve been curious about Newtree since I first read about them a few months back. They do what you could call “mood chocolate”. Each of the all natural bars has a sort of theme to it and (with the exception of Pleasure which is straight dark chocolate) a little something extra to make it special. There were three varieties at the store and I really only felt like having the Sexy bar because I was in the mood for ginger (though I'm not too sure about the guarana in it). Their description of the Sexy bar from their site:

SEXY is chocolate in stilettos. Spice up your day with dark chocolate, warmed by the taste of ginger. Naturally stimulating guarana extract adds an extra perk for a seductive treat. Chocolate and spice and everything nice!

Sounds like a winner to me (so long as I avoid eating it too late). Spicy, gingery, and energizing chocolate just sounds good to me. I like that sort of thing.

At first whiff you can tell it is going to live up to the promise of the description when it comes to being spicy. There is ginger in the smell but there is something more. Something like an orange spiced cider going on in there. There is a citrus thing, but it’s spicy. The bar is well formed and snaps nicely.

Upon tasting I found a slow start that wasn’t as spicy as the aroma promised. The chocolate is smooth but it isn’t very strong. It’s like it’s a delivery medium for the spice. The spice makes the scene shortly after the initial light cocoa wave and it’s pretty nice. The ginger isn’t overly sweet and the entire thing is sort of warm in the mouth. It remains spicy with a hint of citrus (sort of orange, but not as sweet) coming in at the finish and then lingering on.

I have mixed feelings about this bar. The chocolate takes a back seat to the other elements and I feel it could have been better with a stronger chocolate. That is not to say I didn’t enjoy it. The bar is tasty and warm and nice, just not really chocolaty. I’ll call it a 7 out of 10.