Peru 40% Latte
by C-AMARO
Impact
The addition of the Lake Bracciano water makes Acqua Paola water unhealthy to drink, & gives it an off taste. Hence the sarcastic Italian saying "as good as the Acqua Paola".
Same with a component or two in this bar from Italy.
Same with a component or two in this bar from Italy.
Appearance 3.2 / 5
| Color: | silvery-mauve (striking) |
| Surface: | smudged & blemished |
| Temper: | ill-tempered |
| Snap: | pugilistic |
Aroma 8.7 / 10
newly-dispensed caramel-creams to fill a reflecting pool that permits one to smell their own nose...
... & bounces back roasted vanilla
... & bounces back roasted vanilla
Mouthfeel 8.6 / 15
| Texture: | foreshadowed by the Snap -- shatters into brittle shards of... |
| Melt: | ... crunchy wax |
Flavor 35.2 / 50
plays it close to the Aroma
sweet traditional caramel-cum-Rollos®... & rolls over forever... until candy corn, then straight corn syrup -> hard butter applies the brakes on the glucose, buttressed by a vanilla bean acting as a roadblock -> leaves cream in their wake -> cocoa milk with powdered cinnamon -> comes to a screeching halt on burnt vanilla, now serving / swerving as left-over skid marks
sweet traditional caramel-cum-Rollos®... & rolls over forever... until candy corn, then straight corn syrup -> hard butter applies the brakes on the glucose, buttressed by a vanilla bean acting as a roadblock -> leaves cream in their wake -> cocoa milk with powdered cinnamon -> comes to a screeching halt on burnt vanilla, now serving / swerving as left-over skid marks
Quality 12.4 / 20
Finally a scabrous Milk Chocolate from Italy. Up 'til now the boot-shaped pensula kicked over milk buckets to produce only good to superb confections in this category*. Starting with Agostoni's chewy fleshy mousse-milk Chiara which sits as the bottom-dweller amongst its country folk at a humble 8.24 out of a possible 10 (a rating to make most barsmiths weep milk chocolate tears) to the cream-supreme of them all -- Domori's Javagrey (9.02) -- onto the pinnacle of Bessone's world-beater Ceylon (virtually insurmountable at 9.35).
Something about those Tuscan dairy cows.
Chocophages in need of scratching their guilty pleasure zones with mass-crass product have had to go elsewhere. To the Anglo World where the UK, USA, Canada, & Australia supply cocoa-flavored anointments at artisanal prices. Or to France which also obliges. Even Switzerland, the inventor of the Milk Choc bar, slips up every now & then.
No longer.
With this Italy now joins the ranks of sooty Dark-Milks and luckless miscarriages.
A cocoa-vacant latte, doubly so for a 40% cacáo-content, most of it, admittedly, cocoa butter the quality of hard tack. Since C-AMARO employs a Peruvian cacáo that to date it has not released as a single-origin Dark, perhaps the beans are suspect & hence best-suited as a base for Milk Chocolate.
And yet C-AMARO's Peru Latte begins & ends well enough to almost forgive the middle passages, much of that bogged down by textural woes.
Given the label's track-record with its Dark collection, it'll learn no doubt & profit from this bleak experience the next time around.
Very traditional flavor points; essentially Cadbury's for the elites.
INGREDIENTS: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, vanilla
Reviewed October 9, 2013
(* excluding this now-ancient debacle)
Something about those Tuscan dairy cows.
Chocophages in need of scratching their guilty pleasure zones with mass-crass product have had to go elsewhere. To the Anglo World where the UK, USA, Canada, & Australia supply cocoa-flavored anointments at artisanal prices. Or to France which also obliges. Even Switzerland, the inventor of the Milk Choc bar, slips up every now & then.
No longer.
With this Italy now joins the ranks of sooty Dark-Milks and luckless miscarriages.
A cocoa-vacant latte, doubly so for a 40% cacáo-content, most of it, admittedly, cocoa butter the quality of hard tack. Since C-AMARO employs a Peruvian cacáo that to date it has not released as a single-origin Dark, perhaps the beans are suspect & hence best-suited as a base for Milk Chocolate.
And yet C-AMARO's Peru Latte begins & ends well enough to almost forgive the middle passages, much of that bogged down by textural woes.
Given the label's track-record with its Dark collection, it'll learn no doubt & profit from this bleak experience the next time around.
Very traditional flavor points; essentially Cadbury's for the elites.
INGREDIENTS: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, vanilla
Reviewed October 9, 2013
(* excluding this now-ancient debacle)