simple times, environmental awareness & sophistocratic country living (the professor has retired to the summer family estate); pieces high gloss, dark, & easy on the eye

candied/brandied cherry bomb explodes off dark chocolate ballistics

Shells:	hard & thick
Centers:	integration issues further the mess - super smooth ganache melts quickly, long before the shell, & separates out all too often in a clean mound out-of-sync w/out the 2 relating

the choices: a) muddled, muted, & insipid or b) overpowered by gobs of honey that knock the senses

Wine a mere branding theme, adding nothing more than slightly tart fruit lacking any character. Chocolate for the most part also MIA. Heavy-handed, awkward, & largely inedible.

Couverture:

Might as well be none

Pomegranate w/ Orange Blossom Honey - squirts of honey ooze all over bedraggled sweet ‘n sour pomegranate
Cabernet Sauvignon - the vaunted Cab pussified in sickly sweet highs
Cappuccino Tiramisu - not exactly cappuccino / not exactly tiramisu but an all-in-one dessert draining down to mucus
Raspberry – riding the Rainbow Skittles after the Smuckers runs out
Chocolate Cocoa Nibs – flat, bland, & inconspicuous plus nibs are grit to spit
Amaretto - slobbering chocolate over clambering spiced-almond
Port - finally, some balance & possibilities as port smoothly slides thru the best chocolate base of the set
Green Tea w/ Clover Honey - crystallized honey way too forceful & green tea herbal medicine extracted from a clump of grass to clobber the senses