Belize
by Ritual
Impact
Research indicates that 75% of couples do not hook up with their true love, a figure eerily similar to the percentage in consuming-economies that eats some form of chocolate everyday.
Instead they’re most likely having sex with someone who's thinking of somebody else & sleeping with whoever in a failed attempt to ease the loss of their heartbreaker.
A tragi-nightmare turned rom-com when something silly like both partners discover their joint passion for chocolate. Hey, now that's a reason to stick together.
Hmmmm, maybe chocolate’s therefore the surrogate for a missing loved one.
Like this bar.
It ain’t that great but it’ll do.
Instead they’re most likely having sex with someone who's thinking of somebody else & sleeping with whoever in a failed attempt to ease the loss of their heartbreaker.
A tragi-nightmare turned rom-com when something silly like both partners discover their joint passion for chocolate. Hey, now that's a reason to stick together.
Hmmmm, maybe chocolate’s therefore the surrogate for a missing loved one.
Like this bar.
It ain’t that great but it’ll do.
Appearance 4.7 / 5
| Color: | red eye |
| Surface: | rippling |
| Temper: | antique finish |
| Snap: | tough as a manhole-cover |
Aroma 7.3 / 10
evocative
cocoyol palm fronds, pliable sapodilla wood & soft rock around a low campfire… an ode to Maya Angelou's (R.I.P.) On the Pulse at Morning
recessed fruit in the way of lightly smoked raisin
controlled all the way around
cocoyol palm fronds, pliable sapodilla wood & soft rock around a low campfire… an ode to Maya Angelou's (R.I.P.) On the Pulse at Morning
recessed fruit in the way of lightly smoked raisin
controlled all the way around
Mouthfeel 13.5 / 15
| Texture: | lace... |
| Melt: | … right in the slipstream |
Flavor 40.7 / 50
gradients of choc (mild to strong) until gradient fruit (raisin -> grape) -> ham sausage links -> souring & tannins -> grapefruit -> breadfruit signals a cream ending -> stringent back
Quality 15.4 / 20
Ritual working off a 2012 Harvest, perhaps the last of the experimental ferments before Maya Mountain -- this cacáo's cultivators -- found its game & turned in some bumper crops that found full flowering in it's chocolate's Belize bar. This one however more closely tracks with the Dick Taylor release & thus achieves about the same standing. Too many acids, bitters & tannins to contain.
Crafted reasonably & responsibly though, of what was delivered. A case of what comes in must go out.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar
Reviewed June 6, 2014
Crafted reasonably & responsibly though, of what was delivered. A case of what comes in must go out.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar
Reviewed June 6, 2014