Impact
Some bars drop the hammer, mostly in the pure Dark category. This DMZ (Dark-Milk Zone) retrofits a military vehicle (a k a Tcho's lightweight Milk Chocolate) with a rammer – a heavy-gauge chocolate-plate attached to the end of a tank’s main-gun sticking out the turret - & just lives up to its namesake by ramming in the grill werks (lips / teeth / tongue for y'all big mouths out there).
S-E-R-I-O-U-S & especially effective for tactical counter-insurgency in tight urban confines.
S-E-R-I-O-U-S & especially effective for tactical counter-insurgency in tight urban confines.
Appearance 4.3 / 5
| Color: | natural brown w/ pink tinge |
| Surface: | optical illusion from shallowly scored chevron patterns |
| Temper: | dull |
| Snap: | easy clack |
Aroma 8 / 10
foresaken at the outset for a DM... thinly-stripped oak bark & shrunken raisin -> horse bristles -> opens up to nice apple blossom tip underscored in cocoa-caramel -> keeps getting better (thank you oxidation) to soft cotton candy only to weirdly turn back toward vulcanized molasses
Mouthfeel 11.9 / 15
| Texture: | stiff & seized |
| Melt: | interminable |
Flavor 46.1 / 50
kick starts instantly & rips the doors off... exceptionally dark caramel twists into darker Indian corn -> treacle -> fine-grade molasses -> sweet cocoa malt -> strafes off solid Dark-Milk chocolate
Quality 17.3 / 20
Serious intent indeed & a dramatic reversal of misfortune from Tcho’s Classic MC. Neither fronts much finesse nor rhythmics. Both exaggerated straight-shooters; intensely in-the-face & unapologetic about it. But what a result here. The extra 15% or so cacáo-weight channels all the malt found in the lighter 39% into much deeper wells of flavor (rounder too). Vanilla enlisted in the service of dairy in close support of cocoa, the combined forces with tremendous plow-thru & endurance. The only skittish moment - & brief at that - coming at the transition right after the molasses packet.
Tcho really measures the ordnances with precision in, this, its most direct strike to date.
Reviewed Summer 2010
Tcho really measures the ordnances with precision in, this, its most direct strike to date.
Reviewed Summer 2010