Impact
Appearance 1.9 / 5
looks just off the boat
looks just off the boat
Color: | opaque & gone for the ghost |
Surface: | evil |
Temper: | flat negative |
Snap: | sinister |
Aroma 7 / 10
VOG (vanilla oak giant) swarms over matted-down dried cocoa, butter ‘n coconut cream, banana, & nutwood
Mouthfeel 10.8 / 15
Texture: | hard edge |
Melt: | sandy almost granular, suggesting pebbles |
Flavor 41.2 / 50
enter flatline --- no chocolate bang, just cocoa onset -> idles... until nut mix - cashew -> almond -> pistachio skins -> buried stone fruit in a bag of sodbusting dirt (but it’s good earth) -> leaves sourly red
Quality 16.1 / 20
CBS (Cocao-mass / Butter / Sugar) ratio ~1:6:7 equates to a drop of chocolate-vanilla extract in a sea of sweet fat. Still, some drop, rippling with latent potential.