Impact
Musique Foncée (French: Dark Musical Force).
Not quite Musique Concrète, that seminal French acoustic-électronique movement (because, well… unlike concrete this melts) but more like the influential Spectral Music (the flavors herein phantasmal & haunting).
Not quite Musique Concrète, that seminal French acoustic-électronique movement (because, well… unlike concrete this melts) but more like the influential Spectral Music (the flavors herein phantasmal & haunting).
Appearance 3.8 / 5
| Color: | deep brown |
| Surface: | pistoles |
| Temper: | flat |
| Snap: | cosmic for such small discs |
Aroma 8.2 / 10
traditional vanilla / coconut cocoa atop rattan / birch / wheat chaff + plantain & honey… all burst foirth for a banana-coconut cream pie FX
Mouthfeel 13 / 15
| Texture: | slick seduction |
| Melt: | hydro |
Flavor 44.9 / 50
cocoa dripping honey -> biscuit wafer filled with cream ala but better than any Oreo® -> spice load (sassafras, kola, clove) galvanizes a spiced fig (of the Turkish variety) -> slight white (lychee) -> coffee with cream 'n sugar -> parting cherry shot + cocoa syrup
Quality 17.7 / 20
Festive in a very brown way with a candied element. A fresh, unburnt sandwich cookie. So round -- virtually zero bitterness, astringency or stray note.
Guittard really aligns the blend to squarely hit the mid-America palate. Vanilla never so strategically deployed as it bridges sundry cocoas in this mix which in turn tuck & rotate it into a jointed way station between several origins & Flavor Profiles.
Pop Chocolate at its finest. Go on, confess to other guilty pleasures too like Madonna, Miley & Beyoncé… no, they ain't Alicia or Sadé, or even Pink, but when any diva will do...
Reviewed January 16, 2015
Guittard really aligns the blend to squarely hit the mid-America palate. Vanilla never so strategically deployed as it bridges sundry cocoas in this mix which in turn tuck & rotate it into a jointed way station between several origins & Flavor Profiles.
Pop Chocolate at its finest. Go on, confess to other guilty pleasures too like Madonna, Miley & Beyoncé… no, they ain't Alicia or Sadé, or even Pink, but when any diva will do...
Reviewed January 16, 2015