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Country Brazil   
Type Semi-Dark   (85%)
Strain Amazon   (Hybrid)
Source Brazil   (Mata Atlântica; Bahia; Catolé; Uruçuca)
Flavor Naked   (fairly; with Spices/Herbs)
Style Neo-Modern      
lo
med
hi
CQ
Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
Intensity
Complexity
Structure
Length
Impact
A quick glance at this bar reveals a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Don't let appearances fool ya; handicaps & all, it still stomps on most of the competition.
Appearance   2.4 / 5
Color: cloudy
Surface: Bloomberg Heights (fat more than sugar blooms)
Temper: falling out of temper
Snap: brittle
Aroma   7.2 / 10
sweating... vinegar (a whole week ferment?)
musk, mangrove, + wood (Cabreuva-like)
Mouthfeel   10.8 / 15
Texture: shards
Melt: dry
Flavor   46.5 / 50
4x4:
1. very easy Catongo-worthy milky choc;
2. updraft of white fruit pulp (jaboticaba) in the upper palate;
3. jackfruit;
4. mace & inga-cipo at the tip of the tongue...
more spice at the back (cardamon & tonka) -> dry cocoa wood, including a branch to tickle the throat shaft along with paracress
Quality   15.7 / 20
Cosmetic scars aside (battered Appearance & broken Texture which desiccates / robs the taste & therefore the rating & metrics, especially Structure [solid, such as it is] & perhaps Intensity too), Q Aquim still delivers where it counts most: Flavor.

An 85% in no need of add'l cocoa butter for psychological sweetener; 15% sugar performs just fine to indicate some assiduous seed selection.

The 'Q' in Q Aquim stands for Quintessence.

INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar

Reviewed April 17, 2013

  

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