Light Milk
by Cyrila's
Impact
If sweetness occasions good luck then this charm bracelet, whose cocoa beans for trinkets dangle so many dripping tropical fruits off its links that it's more than a mobile amulet to ward off evil... it carries the very seeds of good fortune.
Appearance 2.7 / 5
| Color: | not much lighter than Cyrila's Classic Dark |
| Surface: | rustic |
| Temper: | stucco |
| Snap: | hollow baritone |
Aroma 7 / 10
Classic Dark replica with add'l tobacco leaf, cinnamon + a tight wedge of queso
Mouthfeel 10.8 / 15
| Texture: | sand paper |
| Melt: | anorexic for a Milk |
Flavor 45.9 / 50
indeterminate beginning... flutters around allspice -> gradual creep of cinnamon-mocha, then the fruits switch on (mango, papaya, orange) -> cocoa powder -> pineapple tart down the shaft with a ginger rope
Quality 16.2 / 20
Well-named: just a touch of milk for this easy Belize cacáo. Feels helium light in weight, taste & character; & in need of a little grounding.
Again low-CQ (for Chocolate Quotient / baseline cocoa flavor) though perhaps slightly greater than its Dark sib! Ditto very little of that Milk Choc staple -- caramel.
That renders a diluted sense... indefinite as to being neither all-out Dark nor much of a Milk Choc (which only indirectly, obliquely really, influences the progression by curbing the banana compounds inherent to this cacáo & effacing for the most part the wooden effects).
In so doing, it charms ever more.
ING: cocoa mass, brown sugar, cocoa butter, milk, vanilla
Reviewed September 20, 2011
Again low-CQ (for Chocolate Quotient / baseline cocoa flavor) though perhaps slightly greater than its Dark sib! Ditto very little of that Milk Choc staple -- caramel.
That renders a diluted sense... indefinite as to being neither all-out Dark nor much of a Milk Choc (which only indirectly, obliquely really, influences the progression by curbing the banana compounds inherent to this cacáo & effacing for the most part the wooden effects).
In so doing, it charms ever more.
ING: cocoa mass, brown sugar, cocoa butter, milk, vanilla
Reviewed September 20, 2011