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Country Belgium   
Type Semi-Dark   (70% w/ Nibs)
Strain Blend   
Source
Flavor Earthen   
Style Classic      
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Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
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Complexity
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Length
Impact
A brown-out. If you love bitter agony, like licking hot Georgia asphalt in the middle of summer, & have a problem, indeed an intense dislike for simpler pleasure, then this is not for you.
Appearance   3.9 / 5
Color: crimson brown
Surface: smooth front; backside pocked & pitted (nibs)
Temper: uneven
Snap: muted; cobbled break line
Aroma   7 / 10
serene leather, wood, & tobacco around dried fruit
Mouthfeel   12.3 / 15
Texture: wafer-crisp; thin
Melt: peaceful disintegration
Flavor   43.1 / 50
begins w/ a brown-out: Turkish figs, brown sugar & brown butter -> cocoa honey reaches deeper to chocolate -> modulates sweeter fruit (dates/mulberries) in the midsection -> nibs steady flavors, planing on roasted cocoa caramelized by so much dried fruit -> cherrywood & golden tobacco -> sugars keep coming... raisins -> lengthens w/ final nib dispersion on almond café
Quality   17.2 / 20
Good match of cocoa base (basically Marcolini’s Fleur de Cacao) to nibs (probably from Ghana), the latter seemingly roasted in a sugar bath, coated in furans. Nibs so often just flatten a profile; here they add warm depth of moderate scale.

  

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