Sao Tome
by Neuhaus
Impact
The power chunk of an elephant & a force of nature seemingly brewed up by local shamans who probably take it as a tropical African savannah cocktail. So stout & sturdy, once downed, you can blow its flavors thru the trunk of what was once your nose. So switched-on, it gets you buzzing off the electrical grid. Heavyweight sweetmeat; a world dominator.
Appearance 3.8 / 5
encased in a virtual passport
encased in a virtual passport
| Color: | dark brown & faint kohl |
| Surface: | cacáo pod mold on front; swirling damask back; unbroken solid |
| Temper: | recessed |
| Snap: | spoon-snap |
Aroma 7.4 / 10
cigar/wood/leather library of flavor; cinnamon sits in the middle
Mouthfeel 10.9 / 15
| Texture: | hardly massages the gums; clumpy pudding, almost chewy |
| Melt: | solid stiff, requires branding iron to melt |
Flavor 45.4 / 50
what extremes – from an instant chocolate-coconut running fast into spiky grasslands... -> a spice bump (cinnamon / clove / vanilla) up to huge fruit (cherry/orange blossom – practically juice) -> brief passing almond -> return to the stump juice spray -> finishes long on reverbarating green stalk
Quality 18.8 / 20
A bean origin in which hyper Belgian processing applies to deft effect in the flavor dept, moderating the parameters toward equilibrium, including a flickering moment where the profile flirts close to that island off the other coast of Africa: Madagascar.