Color:	blackened brown
Surface:	good imprint
Temper:	dull
Snap:	rim shot off a snare drum

oxidized savannah grass, straw, & clay cut thru dark tobacocoa smoothed in shea

Texture:	high butter content (detected in Snap) / soft collapse
Melt:	rather quick; very mild astringency

chocoLOT -> resinous vanilla releases mongongo nut -> light biscuit -> humus -> beautiful Oreo™ -> fudges to the finish

‘Tobago’ fools of a Caribbean Island but African hallmarks are all over this bean: simple, non-complex, easy does it; solid foundational chocolate taste, highly vanilla-driven with just rumors of other possibilities, squelched for the most part by a hot roast. Of Chocovic’s ‘Cluster Fudge’ series (see 2 & 3), this reps the classic earth chocolate.

ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, vanilla; CBS (Cocoa Mass-Butter-Sugar) ~3:4:4

Reviewed 7/31/09