Impact
Meet Brazier 'Mac Trini-Daddy' - the undertaker who buries this bar in terra incognito known as the Final Estate / resting place
Appearance 4.7 / 5
| Color: | jet brown |
| Surface: | virtually immaculate, even under magnification |
| Temper: | Naomi Watt-age; hi wet-shine |
| Snap: | thick pour but thin valley-floors makes for shallowness |
Aroma 8.6 / 10
tall grass & weeds snickered by peanut-caramel lying in ambush (reinforced by exaggerated vanilla) -> blows out cocoa dust, potash, & clay -> misty ethanol rubbing-alcohol -> conjures smoked acorn (ominous signal)
Mouthfeel 13.8 / 15
| Texture: | big, oral engorgement (probably due to lecithin though none listed) |
| Melt: | lasts as long as an hour-glass |
Flavor 35.6 / 50
charred chocolate shocked into life by raisinettes (chocolate-covered black raisins) -> starched on yams & plantain -> ethanol in the aroma mentholates pine cone -> fire wood w/o andirons -> chocolate ash covering coffee... deadlocked into a long simmering burn; snickers peanut aftertaste
Quality 14.4 / 20
Dense & suffocating for heavily darkened tone. Overshot the torrefaction, neither entirely disagreeable (as in some Pralus) nor satisfactory though (such as Coppeneur), burning all that grass in the Aroma, as well as the caramelized vanilla, into wooded aspects of ash.
Coupled with blackened raisins at the opening, this bar bears the scars of a torched Gran Couva – if Valrhona roasted beans at espresso levels.
ING: cocoa mass, cacáo butter, sugar, vanilla
Reviewed Autumn 2009
Coupled with blackened raisins at the opening, this bar bears the scars of a torched Gran Couva – if Valrhona roasted beans at espresso levels.
ING: cocoa mass, cacáo butter, sugar, vanilla
Reviewed Autumn 2009