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Ecuador

by Lindt
Info Details
Country Switzerland   
Type Dark   (75%)
Strain Hybrid   
Source Ecuador   
Flavor Earthen   
Style Industrial      
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Promise gone to waste: perfumed beauty gets burnt-out on a chocolate-prune bender.
Appearance   4.2 / 5
Color: light brown cast in orange rust
Surface: wavy ripples/bubbles...
Temper: ... neutral sheen & still looks great
Snap: high
Aroma   1 / 10
exotic & gifted surround-scent fragrance – just lifts you off the ground: huge cocoa; honey/jasmine/white flowers; papaya/banana/plum; middle plank toasted hazelnut; each a separate signature yet merges for unified aroma
Mouthfeel   10.9 / 15
Texture: dry solids
Melt: take its time... fudge-like
Flavor   38.8 / 50
roasted hazelnut -> bitter nut -> brief berry peek -> long prune smog atop dark-toned chocolate undercoat; taken together a bold suffocating miasma... a darkness rivaling post-war Eastern European novels (good but hardly uplifiting)
Quality   14.2 / 20
Forget that it’s pumped with flavor additives (swaps out vanilla for prune). Achieves what few do: a relatively bitter ‘Arriba’ stripped of florid highlights. Neither sugar nor butter at fault, though once more Lindt rolls-up high-fat content as if to feed on the obese American stereotype. Subprime beans &, more self-evident, over-roasting the culprits. Plus Lindt’s ego forces this varietal to conform to an ideal of center-point chocolate (epitomized in its monumental 85% blend), much as a control-freak/trainer buggy-whips a horse that veers out of line.
CBS ~5:5:3

  

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