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Country Austria   
Type Dark   (80%)
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Flavor Sugar   
Style New School      
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So-called "raw chocolate" usually approximates trying to pick up a turd from the clean end. It can't be done.

Somehow Herr Zotter manages just that with this.

Skillful.
Appearance   4.2 / 5
Color: deep purple
Surface: precise molding
Temper: Zotter's patented matte-shimmer
Snap: cliff hanger
Aroma   7.8 / 10
musty maple (the offshoot of coconut palm sugar), caramel + evergreen terpenes
then it just launches straight away vegetal -- watercress, lettuces, & celery root
unusual
Mouthfeel   11.9 / 15
Texture: little lumps
Melt: totters
Flavor   38.3 / 50
sugar abuts that hard edge of raw -> goes green -> caramel backed in languid licorice… the offshoot of mostly coconut palm action -> bamboo -> mapled sheet rock (tastier than it sounds)
Quality   14.7 / 20
Clearly a conceit to a micro-sliver market niche ("raw chocolate") for this lacks any true redeeming value in flavor other than Zotter performs, as usual, exemplary craft with, in this case, substandard elements: unroasted cocoa & domineering coconut palm sugar.

Far greater perceptual sweetness than its actual sugar content.

As such this becomes as much a bar on coconut than cocoa nuts.

A bit disjointed & layered but a respectable exposition, all things considered, of an 80% "raw".

INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, coconut sugar, cocoa butter, salt

Reviewed December 3, 2013

  

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