Impact
46% cacáo-content resounds with all the churn of a good-sized pipe wave for a Milk Choc.
In truth Valrhona never really does Dark-Milk & goes coastal beach front instead -- ala Playa Bayahibe, D.R. -- & softens the tides with oceans of cocoa butters that froth up, then stone-wash dreams of light chocolate sand castles.
In truth Valrhona never really does Dark-Milk & goes coastal beach front instead -- ala Playa Bayahibe, D.R. -- & softens the tides with oceans of cocoa butters that froth up, then stone-wash dreams of light chocolate sand castles.
Appearance 3.6 / 5
| Color: | brown-tickled-pink |
| Surface: | scuffed & scratched (rare for Valrhona to show so disheveled as though Blek le Rat – the French graffiti artist -- had a hand at this) |
| Temper: | flat |
| Snap: |
bit of a deaf mute |
Aroma 7.8 / 10
heavy-cream caramel + a smidgen of wet doggie dryin' out in the sun
Mouthfeel 10.5 / 15
| Texture: | Wax Factor™ |
| Melt: | gummed up custard (also reflected in the Flavor) |
Flavor 39.2 / 50
fat wax -> bland cream quotient -> vanilla caramel peeks about… -> egg cream & bar on with date-flan -> infant formula cocoa
Quality 14.7 / 20
Hi-quality pablum with the full complement of Milk Chocolate make-up:
As such & all told, this tastes origin-neutral despite utilizing the glam 'go-to' destination cacáo nuts from The D.R.
Reviewed September 17, 2014
INGREDIENTS: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, lecithin, vanilla extractNote the order of appearance: sugar & butter take precedence. Shades of another Valrhona Milk Choc butter-strangler -- Jivara. They generate a useless 1st half... until that turning point whence vanilla drives the cream & latent cocoa home. In keeping with one of fats' attributes, this carries for an appreciable length, thus allowing flavor to slowly unfold over a fairly satisfying concourse in duration at least, if not much in the way of profile range.
As such & all told, this tastes origin-neutral despite utilizing the glam 'go-to' destination cacáo nuts from The D.R.
Reviewed September 17, 2014