Impact
If sweetness occasions good luck then this charm bracelet, whose cocoa beans for trinkets dangle so many dripping tropical fruits off its links that it's more than a mobile amulet to ward off evil... it carries the very seeds of good fortune.
Appearance 2.7 / 5
| Color: | not much lighter than Cyrila's Classic Dark |
| Surface: | rustic |
| Temper: | stucco |
| Snap: | hollow baritone |
Aroma 7 / 10
Classic Dark replica with add'l tobacco leaf, cinnamon + a tight wedge of queso
Mouthfeel 10.8 / 15
| Texture: | sand paper |
| Melt: | anorexic for a Milk |
Flavor 45.9 / 50
indeterminate beginning... flutters around allspice -> gradual creep of cinnamon-mocha, then the fruits switch on (mango, papaya, orange) -> cocoa powder -> pineapple tart down the shaft with a ginger rope
Quality 16.2 / 20
Well-named: just a touch of milk for this easy Belize cacáo. Feels helium light in weight, taste & character; & in need of a little grounding.
Again low-CQ (for Chocolate Quotient / baseline cocoa flavor) though perhaps slightly greater than its Dark sib! Ditto very little of that Milk Choc staple -- caramel.
That renders a diluted sense... indefinite as to being neither all-out Dark nor much of a Milk Choc (which only indirectly, obliquely really, influences the progression by curbing the banana compounds inherent to this cacáo & effacing for the most part the wooden effects).
In so doing, it charms ever more.
ING: cocoa mass, brown sugar, cocoa butter, milk, vanilla
Reviewed September 20, 2011
Again low-CQ (for Chocolate Quotient / baseline cocoa flavor) though perhaps slightly greater than its Dark sib! Ditto very little of that Milk Choc staple -- caramel.
That renders a diluted sense... indefinite as to being neither all-out Dark nor much of a Milk Choc (which only indirectly, obliquely really, influences the progression by curbing the banana compounds inherent to this cacáo & effacing for the most part the wooden effects).
In so doing, it charms ever more.
ING: cocoa mass, brown sugar, cocoa butter, milk, vanilla
Reviewed September 20, 2011