Impact
Appearance 5 / 5
Color: | where brown borders black |
Surface: | perfect |
Temper: | glistens |
Snap: | clear & clean |
Aroma 7.4 / 10
small strawberry/honey –> toasted wheat –> leather –> wood; all mid-intensity... less a roast, more a grille; slack fruit release along the break
Mouthfeel 12.3 / 15
Texture: | more liquid than pinguid |
Melt: | easy flow |
Flavor 43.2 / 50
wild cherry blossom –> pronounced raisin –> cocoa wood guts/licorice –> red currant (backcross to raisin) –> almond shaft; all against a medium weight chocolate spine
Quality 17.6 / 20
Pralus, the white boy, playin' that funky music with the wild cherry opening. The rest follows suite: long ferment & bold roast (given the cherry blossom, & what's been coming from Tanzania lately, he probably burned off some fragile aromatics) yet good equilibrium between assertive & relaxed. Simple, well-defined, & drawn out with enough brawn to keep opening as it goes along.