Impact
Pronounced for some reason ‘comma goe nee’. Call it ‘camo’ for short since this wears fatigues of alternating patterns – dark chocolate brown against lighter brown spices – the paintball gear that provides cover for a fighting purple heart.
Appearance 4.1 / 5
| Color: | solid brown |
| Surface: | S-B’s Ibex flaking out quite a bit... |
| Temper: | ... grazing at itself in the mirror |
| Snap: | brittle as plastic surgery; crow’s feet along the edge |
Aroma 7.8 / 10
no ‘Fruits ‘n Flowers’ or ‘Spices ‘n Herb’ but, yes, Fruits ‘n Spices w/ cocoa downwind propelled on a camphoreous draft (OK, a white lie: some herb afterall... + a little lead No. 2 pencil from some petrol) -> eventually burns off tobacco & white cedar into, as advertised, a prune spot
Mouthfeel 11.6 / 15
| Texture: | hard tack |
| Melt: | labored |
Flavor 46.4 / 50
cocoa on the edge of powder – deep & sweet -> warms thru to all sorts of spice beyond allspice (clove, coriander, cardmamom, cinnamon & ginger) -> the assemblage fusing more cocoplum than prune, then sapote as vanilla’s presence comes fore -> dives sweeter still into a juicy prune bottom -> floats back up on white cedar w/ enduring cocoa stain
Quality 18.5 / 20
Right on the mark. Good length with solid baseline chocolate that threads the whole progression. Among the smoothest (Flavor-wise; Texture a bit fractured), most streamlined & self-contained Grenadas yet to hit with a prune component of nearly
Bolivian proportions. Fulfills the promise that Coppenuer’s bar from this origin merely projects.
A chocolate worth every bean in it. S-B coming back into its own.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, soy lecithin, vanilla bean; CBS (Cocoa Mass/Butter/Sugar ratio): ~4:6:5
Reviewed Autumn 2010
A chocolate worth every bean in it. S-B coming back into its own.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, soy lecithin, vanilla bean; CBS (Cocoa Mass/Butter/Sugar ratio): ~4:6:5
Reviewed Autumn 2010