Impact
Appearance 3.8 / 5
| Color: | forget Java blond... Java (practically) black & orange |
| Surface: | pitted & pocked out back (orange & lemon morcels) |
| Temper: | splotchy (may have experienced variable temperatures) |
| Snap: | buttoned down & remarkably clean edge despite severing thru the fruit zests |
Aroma 8.6 / 10
diametrically opposed yet alluring: smoked citrus (festive orange & lemon against roasting fire logs); leather & wood on the rubdown
Mouthfeel 8.2 / 15
| Texture: | gummy & staggered |
| Melt: | fast & thin |
Flavor 27.6 / 50
lemon races up -> orange slowly shadows it -> chocolate a mere BGP (backround prop) before feebly asserting itself as 1/2 brewed coffee, its grains floundering in the threshing citric acid bath -> stringent exit + old embittered death rattle ash at the finish
Quality 6.5 / 20
Sloppy. Color & aroma give it away: blackened roast for Java coffee rather than cocoa yet citrus flashes-in so brightly, a total eclipse of any chocolate, nothing else matters. As if Marcolini, conscious of his ill-processed 72% Java (which forms the base of this), returns to the lab to correct the blunder by re-building it, adding back sweet acids he originally stripped away... only to overstate the citrus & eviscerate the cacáo.