Growing up, I loved chocolate milk, and when I find a similar taste in an “adult beverage” I’m generally pretty appreciative. So I was right on it, when these cute little bottles of Patrón XO Café Dark Cocoa Coffee Liqueur arrive the other morning. The sun must have been over the yardarm somewhere.
This tequila-based cocoa and coffee liqueur varied in aromas, first one dominating, then another: coffee then cocoa, then tequila. The same on the palate.
Then I read all the stuff that came with the bottles. Patrón Silver, Criollo chocolate from the Tabasco region of Mexico, coffee from Veracruz and Chiapas. There were also a lot of recipes of the type I’d like to sip late at night in a hotel bar, when I didn’t have to drive home. But now I was at home, so what did I do? I added ice, then poured in the milk. Yum.