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Cacao con Granella

by Slitti
Info Details
Country Italy   
Type Dark   (70% w/ Nibs)
Strain Nacional   
Source Ecuador   
Flavor Earthen   
Style Classic      
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Sweetness
Acidity
Bitterness
Roast
Intensity
Complexity
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Length
Impact
Nibs are the steroids that shrinks this bar’s gonads into shriveled nuts.
Appearance   3.8 / 5
Color: dangerously gorgeous; dense, dark oily brown
Surface: air holes the size of divots & craters, even caves for spelunking; + beige freckles (nibs popping thru) on backside
Temper: preening sheen
Snap: quiet thunder
Aroma   7.4 / 10
firm & tall (confirms bold roast from the foreboding color): pita palm wood, tannic cocoa countering spice combo cut by a light vein Stilton blue cheese
Mouthfeel   11.7 / 15
Texture: chitinous crunch; contrast of butter dissolving around gravelly nibs
Melt: lurches
Flavor   40.3 / 50
gets right after it w/ chocolate-vanilla wood chips, the backdrop for entire length -> blackberry flailing -> smoothes out over a butter plain -> pecan on the heels of strong almond -> flirting floral suffers same fate as that earlier lone blackberry -> squashed in flat earth (coffee & palm)
Quality   15.8 / 20
Overbearing control to the point of restraint in service of harmonization. Slitti obviously concerned what nibs might do to color the flavor, & for good reason - they block & rub out a lot of florid-spice in an otherwise optimal roast & conch of the underlying bar, while adding back heavier notes like nuts. The result somewhat generic, bordering dull, & calling into question the use of Nacional in this way.

  

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