Dominicana
by Agostoni
Impact
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'.
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
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
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