Color:	ravenous purple ‘n black
Surface:	large square tablet, medium pour, scored into a 3x3 tic-tac-toe board
Temper:	uneven & smudged
Snap:	on target for 80% class – sharp & tight

flowers, chocolate, & soap bubbles (saponified veg-herbal oils) -> detergent gives way to dirty cotton; aerates popcorn & buttered nuts supported on burnt coffee grounds

Texture:	extremely well-finessed
Melt:	hyper-evenness

dried black currant the opening tease, builds anticipation -> met by darkened chocolate (verging on cocoa powder) & coffee -> morphs tea which intones mint -> yucca-infused butter -> blurry cocoa & multi-grain cereal (mainly corn / rice) -> bitter foggy bottom forest floor -> gentian root; more tea the after-math

Strangely mild for the origin & the percentage. Broad surface spread across palate but shallow depth, never really turning over, just churns thru cocoa-flavored butter (mostly) in danger of flattening out, suggesting a portion of the batch may have been Dutched.

Exemplifies wider affliction with Ecuador cacáo: severe hybridization. Most of the venerated Nacional tree stands have been gutted with clones (CCN-51; EET), leaving a remnant of faded glory tattered over in layers of murky grains & cocoas.

ING: cacáo, sugar, soya lecithin, vanilla