Impact
Any good life quantifies emotional peaks & emotional sinks. Their lasting effect is in the reaction to them.
These Nibs have a chip on their shoulder – potato chip, that is – then shrug it off like some small potatoes in need of shoveling into the dumpster, & turns a bit surly & unruly. Will make for a bar that’d love to vent... fruit ‘n cocoa.
How you react to them might depend on your disposition.
These Nibs have a chip on their shoulder – potato chip, that is – then shrug it off like some small potatoes in need of shoveling into the dumpster, & turns a bit surly & unruly. Will make for a bar that’d love to vent... fruit ‘n cocoa.
How you react to them might depend on your disposition.
Appearance 4.4 / 5
| Color: | golden brown |
| Surface: | cracked to near-uniform chunks |
| Temper: | slightly frosted |
| Snap: | n/a |
Aroma 8.6 / 10
vine ‘n cheese platter trimmed w/ cocoa dusting on caramel, honey, & tobacco... very ready & the most obviously fermented of Amano’s Nib Suite (Ocumare; Madagascar; Jembrana; Accra)
Mouthfeel 11.8 / 15
| Texture: | crisp crunch |
| Melt: | tough |
Flavor 43.3 / 50
fine metal streak underlying mondo-cocoa -> cassava -> potato chip -> minute souring action (chips ‘n vinegar) -> bumbles around greeeen leaf -> lone bitter-finger at the back descends into traditional Nib teritory (soil, earthworms, & mushrooms) -> aft-length = black walnut & bitter beech nut
Quality 18.5 / 20
Proof-positive of Carenero’s potency – the cultivar made famous by El Rey. Too superior a grade to just rip the mouth apart, they pack devastating punch nevertheless.
That early onset potato chip bears shades of Fijian cacáo before the heavier molecular weight tannins take over the progression which also negates, until the very ending, any appearance of ‘nut’ inflections that usually predominate Nibs.
Tread lightly on these & carry a big tongue.
ING: cocoa nibs
Reviewed Autumn 2010
That early onset potato chip bears shades of Fijian cacáo before the heavier molecular weight tannins take over the progression which also negates, until the very ending, any appearance of ‘nut’ inflections that usually predominate Nibs.
Tread lightly on these & carry a big tongue.
ING: cocoa nibs
Reviewed Autumn 2010