Color:	tanned sandalwood
Surface:	very clean winnowing
Temper:	well-defined break lines
Snap:	n/a

lovely imprint: atemoya, ‘ohelo, + plum atop sandalwood -> mineral glints (pink chert & red carnelian) -> turns vegetal (grass & fiddleheads)

Texture:	responsive to heat & pressure; no painful macro-crunch
Melt:	latent but good butter characteristics

splays fine cocoa dust -> drier cocoa -> roasted kukul nuts -> smoked sandalwood -> mineral flares (pink chert turns over silver & white quartz) -> first real bitter hit (polymerized lattice work of quite tolerable tannins) -> subsoil components (including fungi & writhing worms) -> slams out Kona coffee

Gentle compared to other Nibs; merely hints at the Hi-C ocean spray of Madagascar (Tcho; Patric) & avoids for the most part the brutal attacks out of West Africa (Scharffen-Berger).

Much more reminiscent of Plantations’ Nibs with which it shares a similar rating but those are chocolate-covered, these are a pure-play.

Assiduously roasted & winnowed, furnishing a window onto just how kind Hawai’ian chocolate could be (especially gleaned in the Aroma) though somewhat slight in core-cocoa flavor.

Good genes, territory & weather lock in natural sweetness.

ING: cocoa nibs

Reviewed Autumn 2010