Box Chocolate Review

Schakolad

Info Details
Country USA   (Orlando, FL)
Style Mainstream      
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CQ
Sweetness
Intensity
Complexity
Impact
Bombs down Main Street with an overly ambitious, perhaps fatal amount of money; franchising the wares & twitting the tempted with presentation, profusion of choice, & a name worthy of feudal nobility plus a flagship location in Orlando just down the road from the Magic Kingdom of the Mouse.
Presentation   3 / 5
standard pack of enrobed & molds
Aromas   2.8 / 5
cream & butter
Textures/Melt   5.2 / 10
Shells: semi-thick
Centers: waxy
Flavor   31.7 / 50
lacks assertiveness & muscle, reacting flat
Quality   19.6 / 30
Simple, decent confection; hits the gap between artisan / industrial.
Selections
Couverture: generic
Filled-Chocolate
Orange White – astringent soap but an intriguing body verging on soft-spread margarine; tallow
White Maple Cream – sap sweet ooze
Hazelnut – conflicted; milk & hazelnut cancel each other out - a rare phenomenon for this perennial pair
Mocha – too shy to express it
Caramel – just a pull & a tug
Dark Raspberry – best in collection; Dark holds well against clear fruit, though it recedes toward imbalance at the back
Toffee – hollows out at mid-palate

Bars
Milk - neutral
Dark- nice glassy top-notes

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