Grand Noir
by Weiss
		Impact
		
				
Too posh to push, so doctors order the C-section (for Chocolate), only to find 1/2 pregnant. Mission aborted.
			
		Appearance   4 / 5 
			| Color: | burnt orange ‘n purple | 
| Surface: | super clean | 
| Temper: | flat wax steals any appeal | 
| Snap: | nice & tight for a 57%; ditto crystallization on the break wall | 
Aroma   7.1 / 10
			
passive recliner... a light Dark-Milk scent, faint cream tones envelope around very airy vanilla-cocoa, of virtually no underlying support, mimicing abiu -> drop of soursop & Madagascar ylang -> sing’d leather at the end
			Mouthfeel   11.6 / 15
			| Texture: | powderful dry | 
| Melt: | staggers but comes round w/ good swell | 
Flavor   34.2 / 50
			
vanilla & brown sugar clambering over each other, cocoa in between -> bahri date -> flash cream -> tapioca -> minor talc, then cement create an alien ‘martian-mallow’ -> dried mulberry -> carob -> trace mint -> unexpected orange floresence
			Quality   13.8 / 20
			
Domesticated. OK beginning / OK ending. Again, respectible bean selection but too recessed in butter content (felt late in the melt-thru), then taped over with vanilla (overly expressed, causing any Madagascar components - what little appear - to vanish into the predominant source Ecuador). With such high sugar volume (not quite half), Weiss could’ve afforded to go against its own grain, increasing the mass vis-à-vis fat but choose to stick to the script of its usual repose & more whispering sighs / fleeting scents that leave a promise just as they dash hope.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, vanilla
Reviewed 8/19/09
			
		
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, vanilla
Reviewed 8/19/09
		
		
		