 
		Impact
		
					Appearance   4.7 / 5 
			| Color: | as red as 65% can get – auburn to aubrown | 
| Surface: | finish a perfect plaque | 
| Temper: | luminous | 
| Snap: | it got snap & shears clean too | 
Aroma   8.6 / 10
			
straight into the deep woods – cedar chest filled w/ chocolate ‘stock’ (what beef is to soup); slight wax; chantilly head (sweetened whipped cream) backed by butter; but turns 180 degrees on the breakwall to a blackberry cheese ginch
			Mouthfeel   13.4 / 15
			| Texture: | even & so smooth it concentrates the experience on the flavors | 
| Melt: | automatic | 
Flavor   45.2 / 50
			
chocolate au lait (caramel) -> sweet cocoa medley: blueberry -> cherry -> pineapple / kiwi -> coasts to melon... all in a linear progression of an ever brighter sunrise into the slightest tart fixture -> backcrosses around cherry, but more fermented this turn toward the back -> sets into chocolate-almond dusk
			Quality   18.4 / 20
			
Choice chocolate; controlled balance neither amped with citric acid nor pinned down with bitter wood. Delicacy rather than strength; tons of charm (& has more of it than the gold standard for this origin –   Amedei’s – which also makes for the less sublime). Keeps getting sweeter as it goes along til the nut finish.
			
		
 
					 
		 
		 
		
