Green Tea
by Vivani
Impact
A bar that banks on 2 nutriceutical super-foods - green tea & cacáo - & the Robert Louis Stevenson adage that if everybody after a hard night or life of partying sits down to a banquet of consequences, then the vitamin supplement flavor in this may help ease the head up from sleeping off the side of the table... to get right back in the game.
Appearance 4.3 / 5
| Color: | ochre-tinted medium brown |
| Surface: | Vivani's usual dust up job |
| Temper: | flat |
| Snap: | sharp, crisp crack bordering brittle; clean if minor jags on the edge wall |
Aroma 6.8 / 10
in sync w/ its temper - flat.., & partially closed: must, dust, amber, & walnuts; tea only peripherally
Mouthfeel 10.2 / 15
| Texture: | dry-sided; firm; un-giving |
| Melt: | elapsed as an hourglass |
Flavor 36.7 / 50
piercing catechin backed in solid cocoa -> green tea infuses laterally across the pal, choc still holding vertical until catechins spread up & out to overtake profile -> tea combined w/ cacáo produce green tobacco leaf -> finishes up kasha & corn grains at the back; minor numbing the after-FX
Quality 15.4 / 20
Semisweet, relatively higher sugar content mollifies firm tannins of both theobroma & camellia into more diffuse & vaporous bitterness, while the rest of the flavor clumps below. Rather angular, austere, & somewhat acrid, albeit well-controlled for overall dark tone.
For those who like tea & chocolate in capsule form.
For those who like tea & chocolate in capsule form.