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Country France   
Type Dark-Milk   (45%)
Strain Java   (some Criollo)
Source Indonesia   (Java)
Flavor Earthen   (w/ Spices/Herbs)
Style Rustic      
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Mélissa is French for lemon balm. Here embalmed as a 1/2 pregnant musty old lady on the bus.
Appearance   4.3 / 5
Color: tanned strawberry blonde
Surface: ruddy & rowdy
Temper: glowing high-maintenance; stunning for Milk - even at 45%
Snap: perfect pitch for this or any bar, Dark or Milk; coarse, crumble cake oddly on the break
Aroma   4.6 / 10
aromatically-challenged... 3-D - Dead Dairy Dooky - kills the pal: curdled buttermilk, barnyard cheese funk (parmesan) saved by pecan
Mouthfeel   8.2 / 15
Texture: soft dry powder
Melt: fissiparous; crumbles all around
Flavor   38.7 / 50
caramel rocks the mouth -> buttermilk then knocks the eyeballs out -> hard toffee smoke, deep & dark (incl almost the whole vanilla orchid - petals, stems, et. al. - though none added), pulls things down as decomposition sets in, the underside goes quaggy (moss) 'n buggy (earth worms)... fungus -> lone bitter nut in the back fired in light betel -> malingering after-effects despite rhubarb & bar's namesake lemon balm... vulcanized polymer ends it
Quality   12.8 / 20
Potential compost pile. Some may think what a use for Criollo, like turning a national forest into a golf course. But there's an exhibition here. Dark caramel roll (smoke-drying + later roasting) & the strong milk variety employed in the blend plays heavily on the lipase enzyme for an amateurish buttermilk jamboree. That the bean still cuts thru is a tribute to Java Criolllo's guts & grace.

  

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