100%
by Rancho San Jacinto
Impact
Melts into geezerhood like a prick that mellowed after his lesbian sister comes home & starts giving him the blow jobs again that once upon a time convinced her to become a dyke in the first place.
PNUF
PNUF
Appearance 0.7 / 5
literally a F.U.B.A.R.
literally a F.U.B.A.R.
| Color: | brindle (grey) |
| Surface: | bloom city (no sugar, therefore, fat crystals lost their temper) |
| Temper: | angry |
| Snap: | chalk dry |
Aroma 7.6 / 10
raw dried cocoa dirt, cinnamon dust & soiled nuts
Mouthfeel 9.1 / 15
| Texture: | hard, dry & crotchety... |
| Melt: | ... miraculously rounds into spherical fat |
Flavor 40.4 / 50
mild “dutched” chocolate -> palm oil -> cassava -> peanut & almond meal -> leguminous twigs -> gentian root -> momentary sweet plantain -> back-throttle black-olive bitter -> OPC (oligomeric proanthocyanidin)
Quality 14.8 / 20
An estate-bar grown on the 1,200-acre Rancho San Jacinto (285 of them devoted to cacáo trees), outside the so-called Arriba zone, located south of Guayaquil, Ecuador in the Guayas region between Naranjal & Balao on the main road – Panamerican Highway #25.
Gotta like the way Rancho unabashedly displays its Don Homero aka CCN-51, a dumb clone if there ever was one, cultivated on the ranch since 1985. They brandish it as a point of pride compared to most others who run & hide from the fact, then try to cover it up with false claims of Nacional growing in the yard.
Once upon a time when emperors wore clothes Pierrick Chouard of Vintage Plantations Chocolate Company in New Jersey sourced some cocoa from Ranchos like these. He decided to find other Bromans (growers) to align with his Rainforest Alliance approach.
That may have forced this Rancho’s hand into getting “certified” (organic, Fair-Trade, Rainforest Alliance). Now that it fulfills those norms only shows that, far from going hand-in-hand, certification & quality can be miles apart & mutually exclusive.
Bland, tired & stale; nothing really happens in this composite of Hachez butterball d’Arriba meets Bessone’s “ecuaboring” El Oro.
The proprietor Fernando Crespo lists tasting notes that include “light floral hint” (perhaps some subsoil flower roots) & “unique raisin” (must be referring to grape seed extract).
A dull selection, adequately processed, treated to poor post-factory handling... adds up to drab but harmless; safe for a 100%. On the plus side, no sign of sour ferment nor any astringency either.
ING: cocoa mass; CBS (Cocoa Mass/Butter/Sugar ratio): 1:0:0
Reviewed Autumn 2010
Gotta like the way Rancho unabashedly displays its Don Homero aka CCN-51, a dumb clone if there ever was one, cultivated on the ranch since 1985. They brandish it as a point of pride compared to most others who run & hide from the fact, then try to cover it up with false claims of Nacional growing in the yard.
Once upon a time when emperors wore clothes Pierrick Chouard of Vintage Plantations Chocolate Company in New Jersey sourced some cocoa from Ranchos like these. He decided to find other Bromans (growers) to align with his Rainforest Alliance approach.
That may have forced this Rancho’s hand into getting “certified” (organic, Fair-Trade, Rainforest Alliance). Now that it fulfills those norms only shows that, far from going hand-in-hand, certification & quality can be miles apart & mutually exclusive.
Bland, tired & stale; nothing really happens in this composite of Hachez butterball d’Arriba meets Bessone’s “ecuaboring” El Oro.
The proprietor Fernando Crespo lists tasting notes that include “light floral hint” (perhaps some subsoil flower roots) & “unique raisin” (must be referring to grape seed extract).
A dull selection, adequately processed, treated to poor post-factory handling... adds up to drab but harmless; safe for a 100%. On the plus side, no sign of sour ferment nor any astringency either.
ING: cocoa mass; CBS (Cocoa Mass/Butter/Sugar ratio): 1:0:0
Reviewed Autumn 2010