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Grand Noir

by Weiss
Info Details
Country France   
Type Semi-Dark   (57%; almost Dark-Milk)
Strain Blend   
Source (Ecuador; Venezuela; Trinidad; Madagascar)
Flavor Naked   
Style Classic      
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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

  

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