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Country France   
Type Semi-Dark   (64%)
Strain Trinitario   (ICS)
Source Trinidad   (Montserrat Hills, San Juan Estate)
Flavor Sugar   
Style Mainstream      
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Impact
Pop chocolate flavor foole
Appearance   4.7 / 5
Color: brown blushing orange
Surface: primo
Temper: wax shine
Snap: sheared off ledge
Aroma   7.6 / 10
adult nutella spread in a cedar sweat-box; major nut cream – filberts backed by macadamia; honey-spun cream; chocolate essence; trace tar, wood, stone & pewter against dark rum undercurrent
Mouthfeel   12.8 / 15
Texture: smooth
Melt: quick & easy
Flavor   4 / 50
ramps up sweet chocolate -> raisin pop -> fattens out long concourse caramel -> honey-coated hazelnut -> rum cola
Quality   9.3 / 20
Fundamentally sugar butter; tastes vain & anorexic. All the right lines there but gone missing - just tracers without dimension & color - Valrhona seemingly past its prime, banged-up, & uninterested. Sourced from the 400 acres of the venerable high-grower San Juan Estate (formerly owned by cacáo pioneer François Agostini), home to the oldest strains of Trinitario on the island that can be traced to F.J. Pound’s original ICS clones.

  

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