Impact
So-called "raw chocolate" usually approximates trying to pick up a turd from the clean end. It can't be done.
Somehow Herr Zotter manages just that with this.
Skillful.
Somehow Herr Zotter manages just that with this.
Skillful.
Appearance 4.2 / 5
| Color: | deep purple |
| Surface: | precise molding |
| Temper: | Zotter's patented matte-shimmer |
| Snap: | cliff hanger |
Aroma 7.8 / 10
musty maple (the offshoot of coconut palm sugar), caramel + evergreen terpenes
then it just launches straight away vegetal -- watercress, lettuces, & celery root
unusual
then it just launches straight away vegetal -- watercress, lettuces, & celery root
unusual
Mouthfeel 11.9 / 15
| Texture: | little lumps |
| Melt: | totters |
Flavor 38.3 / 50
sugar abuts that hard edge of raw -> goes green -> caramel backed in languid licorice… the offshoot of mostly coconut palm action -> bamboo -> mapled sheet rock (tastier than it sounds)
Quality 14.7 / 20
Clearly a conceit to a micro-sliver market niche ("raw chocolate") for this lacks any true redeeming value in flavor other than Zotter performs, as usual, exemplary craft with, in this case, substandard elements: unroasted cocoa & domineering coconut palm sugar.
Far greater perceptual sweetness than its actual sugar content.
As such this becomes as much a bar on coconut than cocoa nuts.
A bit disjointed & layered but a respectable exposition, all things considered, of an 80% "raw".
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, coconut sugar, cocoa butter, salt
Reviewed December 3, 2013
Far greater perceptual sweetness than its actual sugar content.
As such this becomes as much a bar on coconut than cocoa nuts.
A bit disjointed & layered but a respectable exposition, all things considered, of an 80% "raw".
INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, coconut sugar, cocoa butter, salt
Reviewed December 3, 2013