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Canoabo 70%

by Solstice
Info Details
Country USA   
Type Semi-Dark   (70%)
Strain Canoabo   (Criollo group)
Source Venezuela   (Barlovento; Canoabo Valley)
Flavor Naked   
Style retro-American      
lo
med
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CQ
Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
Intensity
Complexity
Structure
Length
Impact
Elusive as connecting the Higgs Boson with dark energy / matter
Appearance   3.7 / 5
Color: medium brown with a lock of red
Surface: soft brush; sub-bubbling
Temper: opaque
Snap: rips & sheers; pinholes on the cleavage
Aroma   7.4 / 10
recessed golden raisin / champagne grape beneath yeasts & sour cream -> jute, burlap, dried palm before this start to make hay (both literally & figuratively -- see Flavor below)
eventually tangs up some acidulous tarts
Mouthfeel   12.2 / 15
Texture: gummy
Melt: loiters & lingers
Flavor   44.5 / 50
kind entrance on white fruit-chocolate (light acidity over cocoa) -> gently scrapes against stone & wood -> fresh mulberry in vanilla custard (nice) -> back fabric (jute / burlap hungover from the Aroma) -> sugar -> flickering banana alternates faintly with equally fleeting sweet baby pineapple -> brief piercing bromeliad frond -> raw cashew milk -> tannic cocoa & out
Quality   17.3 / 20
A Flavor answerable to the equipment upon which Solstice crafts it.

Venezuelan cocoa, often reclined in nature, rarely loud-mouthed, & this follows suit, bar the manner in which its processing imparts a notable, even quite unique character in contrast to Canoabo's traits.

Solstice's rather spare set-up, as expected, renders some edges & angles, by no means smooth, & yet never coarse & rough either. Call it 'comfortably austere'.

retro-American; though, again, with the benign genetics of Canoabo, only partially so. Ergo, a qualified retro.

INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter

Reviewed July 1, 2014

  

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