Impact
Appearance 4.8 / 5
| Color: | brown-on-beige interior |
| Surface: | rippling... |
| Temper: | ... sheen |
| Snap: |
the tensile strength of a column of air near the stratosphere |
Aroma 8.3 / 10
plain & simple / straight & pure: chocolate butter-cream
Mouthfeel 13 / 15
| Texture: | the center airmails it away while... |
| Melt: | ... the enrobing sidewalls course along a slower dimension |
Flavor 34.4 / 50
golden butters generate subtle butterscotch -> sweet cream -> saccharine glucose-edge streaks across the lateral palate -> back fruit (honeydew melon) + faint bitter (cherry stem)
Quality 12.1 / 20
Part of Zotter's handgeschöpft (hand-scooped) series in which the barsmith often takes extreme liberties with additives & creativity. Yet this cuts against that grain, pulling in the reins, to deliver a more direct / straight chocolate sensation.
A ganache in a bar really. Nothing complex; just overbearing sweeteners to inundate then reduce the potency of 80% cacao-content.
The most remarkable feature: the melt... beguiling & witchy... the slow robe over the fast center creates a disorienting time-distortion, the effect out of joint yet exhilarating -- a total motion lounge hung with Salvador Dalis.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, dairy butter, cocoa butter, fructose-glucose syrup, salt
Reviewed June 20 , 2012
A ganache in a bar really. Nothing complex; just overbearing sweeteners to inundate then reduce the potency of 80% cacao-content.
The most remarkable feature: the melt... beguiling & witchy... the slow robe over the fast center creates a disorienting time-distortion, the effect out of joint yet exhilarating -- a total motion lounge hung with Salvador Dalis.
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, dairy butter, cocoa butter, fructose-glucose syrup, salt
Reviewed June 20 , 2012