Mleczna
by Chris & Tom / Manufactura Czekolady
Impact
Gold, souls & cocoa... 3 major lures for Europeans subsequent to Columbus' arrival in the New World.
The precious metal was often smelt down from priceless art objects while the middle "commodity" -- the founding peoples of the Amercas -- were "converted" to be fruitful & multiply, by way of the Cross... or else.
As for the third, cacáo was generically propagated for serviceable product like this.
Despite modern marketing claims & some mythical Swiss traveler named Carl August Goldsselman (who supposedly hailed Arriba Nacional as the finest), cacáo from Ecuador rarely attracted much attention, its flavor considered secondary at best & inferior in the least, until the great groves of Mesoamerican Criollo were wiped out due to exhaustion from being over-harvested. Only then did Nacional gain esteem & only as an alternative.
By 1916 it too experienced trouble, plagued by disease. Eventually, challenger clones like CCN-51 replaced it. Flavor, say the really old-timers, has been in further decline ever since.
Chris & Tom putting a bad seed to good use with lots of sugar, butter and milk.
The precious metal was often smelt down from priceless art objects while the middle "commodity" -- the founding peoples of the Amercas -- were "converted" to be fruitful & multiply, by way of the Cross... or else.
As for the third, cacáo was generically propagated for serviceable product like this.
Despite modern marketing claims & some mythical Swiss traveler named Carl August Goldsselman (who supposedly hailed Arriba Nacional as the finest), cacáo from Ecuador rarely attracted much attention, its flavor considered secondary at best & inferior in the least, until the great groves of Mesoamerican Criollo were wiped out due to exhaustion from being over-harvested. Only then did Nacional gain esteem & only as an alternative.
By 1916 it too experienced trouble, plagued by disease. Eventually, challenger clones like CCN-51 replaced it. Flavor, say the really old-timers, has been in further decline ever since.
Chris & Tom putting a bad seed to good use with lots of sugar, butter and milk.
Appearance 4.5 / 5
| Color: | sandy blonde |
| Surface: | smudged pillows of a mold (3x6 tablet) |
| Temper: | a mirror |
| Snap: | exceptional for a Milk Choc |
Aroma 8.8 / 10
clean & clearly defined: White Chocolate vanilla mousse / butter cream frosting
Mouthfeel 10.6 / 15
| Texture: | disjointed |
| Melt: | sclerotic |
Flavor 41.3 / 50
curls in caramel -> Tootsie Roll™ -> cement & talc mixed with glucose & glutamate -> honey-butter -> bread crumb
Quality 15.7 / 20
Light tone for a 44%, quite expected with sugar & cocoa butter the lead ingredients, a character that vaults it into Domori's Javagrey territory.
And just as well.
As forecast in Chris & Tom's 70% Ekwador, this a damaged bean best buried under mounds of both of those fillers (sugar & butter), & the barsmiths have done so admirably here.
Still, some core-chocolate manages to punch thru to make itself felt beyond its comparatively meager weight in cocoa mass, which curbs the overall perception of sweetness toward a savored bent.
ING: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, milk powder, vanilla bean
Reviewed October 21, 2011
And just as well.
As forecast in Chris & Tom's 70% Ekwador, this a damaged bean best buried under mounds of both of those fillers (sugar & butter), & the barsmiths have done so admirably here.
Still, some core-chocolate manages to punch thru to make itself felt beyond its comparatively meager weight in cocoa mass, which curbs the overall perception of sweetness toward a savored bent.
ING: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, milk powder, vanilla bean
Reviewed October 21, 2011