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Dominicana

by Agostoni
Info Details
Country Italy   
Type Dark   (75%)
Strain Hybrid   
Source Dominican Republic   (Duarte Province)
Flavor Naked   
Style Classic      
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A twilight chocolate: looming darkness & yet still quite sweet.

Italy, the home country of the Agostoni family, has a phrase for it: dolce far niente -- 'pleasant idleness'.
Appearance   3.2 / 5
Color: uniformly dark
Surface: striated
Temper: dull (pictured above a promotional copy under the glare of lights & plastic replicas no doubt)
Snap: bring earplugs
Aroma   8.6 / 10
hickory-smoked cocoa chips spiced with cracked black pepper & poppyseed
positively intriguing
Mouthfeel   13.7 / 15
Texture: ultra glide, so smooth...
Melt: ... almost a blur
Flavor   43.9 / 50
loads in spiced-cocoa followed by a sweet fruit (cocoa butter / plantain)... idles on this for some time until lite fruit (fresh apricot) against a hazy tobac backdrop -> quickly lashes some blackstrap & just as quickly soothed in more butter -> small woods -> bounces back dried apricot -> blows away a cigar-brownie (sheer excellence)
Quality   15.8 / 20
Heavily influenced by cocoa butter (quantified by a CBS [Cocoa mass / Butter / Sugar ratio] of ~6:9:5) for rather uneventful & understated Dominican bar. The fat lipids negate virtually all astringency & bitterness.

Formulation aside, solid craft all the way around however -- from the seed selection & the post-harvest right thru to the tempering -- to produce a very round core-cocoa flavor.

INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla;

Reviewed April 9, 2012

  

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