Color:	medium brown with a lock of red
Surface:	soft brush; sub-bubbling
Temper:	opaque
Snap:	rips & sheers; pinholes on the cleavage

recessed golden raisin / champagne grape beneath yeasts & sour cream -> jute, burlap, dried palm before this start to make hay (both literally & figuratively -- see Flavor below)
eventually tangs up some acidulous tarts

Texture:	gummy
Melt:	loiters & lingers

kind entrance on white fruit-chocolate (light acidity over cocoa) -> gently scrapes against stone & wood -> fresh mulberry in vanilla custard (nice) -> back fabric (jute / burlap hungover from the Aroma) -> sugar -> flickering banana alternates faintly with equally fleeting sweet baby pineapple -> brief piercing bromeliad frond -> raw cashew milk -> tannic cocoa & out

A Flavor answerable to the equipment upon which Solstice crafts it.

Venezuelan cocoa, often reclined in nature, rarely loud-mouthed, & this follows suit, bar the manner in which its processing imparts a notable, even quite unique character in contrast to Canoabo's traits.

Solstice's rather spare set-up, as expected, renders some edges & angles, by no means smooth, & yet never coarse & rough either. Call it 'comfortably austere'.

retro-American; though, again, with the benign genetics of Canoabo, only partially so. Ergo, a qualified retro.

INGREDIENTS: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter

Reviewed July 1, 2014