Dark
by Alter Eco
Impact
A blend that could pass for a pure-play but with a contrasting quarrelsome texture to make it all jump street in the same way fingernails playing around the erogenous zones can stimulate arousal.
Appearance 3.6 / 5
| Color: | rusted pewter |
| Surface: | + Peru |
| Temper: | fuzzy lackluster |
| Snap: | ear-splitting; exposed red iron-oxide nibs along the edge |
Aroma 7.6 / 10
small guava flower caught in a cobweb of maca & lucuma twining around an evergreen
Mouthfeel 12.8 / 15
| Texture: | crunch mutiny |
| Melt: | quarrelsome riot |
Flavor 47.3 / 50
chocolate suspended in spectacular plum brandy -> candies off to sugar plum blossoms -> groundswell as nibs work thru the network producing super red currants threading a supple baseline chocolate running the entire length -> more petals, orchids... hibiscus + orange blossoms -> brazil nuts & cocoa grains in a flower cache finish it up
Quality 18.7 / 20
Those red-colored nibs might as well be crushed dried currants... they’re that sweetly fruited. Probably some Scavina hot-shots in this mix, bringing their own floral spray to match, for a blend so seamless it tastes single-origin, nearly single bean.
Optimally fermented, thoroughly dried (none of the dirty work from Costa Rica found in Alter-Eco’s Black sludge pack) then suitably processed. This bar just blows out & annihilates the C-spot™.
ING: cocoa mass (Bolivia / Peru), sugar (Phillipines), cacáo butter (Bolivia / Dom Rep), nibs (Bolivia); CBS ~1:2:1
Optimally fermented, thoroughly dried (none of the dirty work from Costa Rica found in Alter-Eco’s Black sludge pack) then suitably processed. This bar just blows out & annihilates the C-spot™.
ING: cocoa mass (Bolivia / Peru), sugar (Phillipines), cacáo butter (Bolivia / Dom Rep), nibs (Bolivia); CBS ~1:2:1