Impact
Like Lennon singing about Mao in his Revolution #9, but with a difference: this is gonna make it with just about everyone anyhow
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Appearance 5 / 5
jaw-dropper
jaw-dropper
| Color: | as purple as brown, + tinge of orange |
| Surface: | built to impress |
| Temper: | glitters |
| Snap: | loudly shears right off |
Aroma 8.1 / 10
3 layers as purple as its color: balsa wood, hazelnut, decomposing foliage; spice (ginger & clove over vanilla), deep-sided bougainvillea crossed by frangipani; milky chocolate breath, & unmistakable whallop of Chuao (a scent all its own, turning cliché tags such as ‘hints of molasses’ pale, then meaningless)
Mouthfeel 12.6 / 15
| Texture: | butteritious |
| Melt: | fluid & somewhat urgent |
Flavor 43.1 / 50
very blue blueberry -> mates up w/ cocoa -> swells sweet purple plum -> explodes off a flowering shot (frangipani underpined by molasses) -> settles on supple chocolate rotating at turns sarsaparilla & wood (welcome acid relief) -> fizzes out under coffee -> treacle returns along w/ cream wafer -> ends coffee-almond
Quality 17 / 20
Scaffold of 9 beans, seemingly customized roasting for each; builds up to acids ultimately suppressed by a) Amedei’s typical blackened profile, & b) speed of the melt. Structure overall resembles Frank Gehry blueprints: a mangle of shapes & distorted patterns, curious cornices & crevices; haphazard FXs.