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Chocavier 75%

by Venchi
Info Details
Country Italy   
Type Semi-Dark   (75%)
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Flavor Earthen   
Style Industrial      
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Simpler than too simple. "Dutch" chocolate via Italy.
Appearance   3.4 / 5
Color: gunsmoke grey
Surface: pellets
Temper: charred
Snap: n/a
Aroma   6.8 / 10
smoldering wood chips, cocoa dust, & bluestone
Mouthfeel   13.1 / 15
Texture: soft 'n tender
Melt: fragments congeal then meltaway
Flavor   31.2 / 50
mono-saturated cocoa butter cream -> a little bottom bitter -> Oreo w/ metallic undercoast -> tar
Quality   13.3 / 20
Starved. Conforms to the rest of Venchi's Blend line (including Chocavier 90% - of which this is a toned back version). Too much alkali, butter, cocoa powder for Venchi currently to be taken seriously as a purveyor of Dark Chocolate.

  

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