Color:	gangster brown
Surface:	welts, air pockets, grease splatter; could've been shaken out better
Temper:	uneven; typical semi-flat front for a Los Rios (any polish here provided by plastic wrapper transfer); fully flat on its back
Snap:	crumbling edge goes along w/ slumming low-pitch (suspect conching)

classic; monumental intoxicants flare up the nostrils: warm roast - coffee + cereal grains... tremendous floral-spice print... orange blossom / hibiscus & cinnamon (almost to a level of candy Red Hots), add fennel; thick tar 'n cocoa + nutpack on the underside... orange concentrate on the rubdown; reminiscent of Coppeneur's sativa wonderland in Iara Dunkle

Texture:	dry / powdery
Melt:	viscous thin & sinuous

blows up cinna-blossom (orange & lavender - stunning but all too fleeting) -> great chocolate bang (dry powder taste matching texture) -> that tarred aromatic shows up as molasses -> Asian spices run rampant -> starts breaking down... chalk / minerals / limestone baseboard the choke point, tolerable but obscures clarity -> gentian root a joy killer -> minor mint -> densely dark chocolate devolves toward carob + chicory root leading to coffee upsurge (a backcross of sorts to earlier molasses); cedar / juniper / eucalyptus in the aft-length

Crib chocolate; undeveloped in & around the edges. Every aspect sub-optimal: a) short fermentation (even for quasi-Nacional type which generally requires a quicker cycle); b) insufficient conche (evidenced in the texture & more so in underlying flavors) compounded by handling issues, particularly storage &/or drying (resulting in the relative deterioration at mid-palate where flavors struggle to harmonize). Heavy all the way around.