Impact
Jour et Nuit... day & night, black & white... like Imam 'n Bowie? Not quite; but does major damage with polished charisma to deserve cult status. A deceptive lure for snatching Milk babies to the Dark side.
Appearance 5 / 5
Bi-tonal... Duke Ellington/Billy Strahan's BROWN & Tan Fantasy
Bi-tonal... Duke Ellington/Billy Strahan's BROWN & Tan Fantasy
Color: | 2 evenly poured layers: top semi-dark / milk bottom |
Surface: | perfect front face; bottom a pimply baby's behind |
Temper: | polished |
Snap: | muted; granular edge |
Aroma 7.3 / 10
duals to a draw: neither outright Milk nor Dark but neutral cocoa w/ under-spin of hazelnut
Mouthfeel 12.9 / 15
Texture: | tale of 2 cities... round & natural meets firm & silicon |
Melt: | very corporeal; collapses 3-60 |
Flavor 44.1 / 50
tongue-splitting start: buckets of softer/quicker bottom Milk takes the lead -> Darker section sinks into that milk bath... caramelized by it then toffees back to it -> snaps into precise alignment as they galvanize each other, releasing a series of salt-like savory depth charges -> melts deep into... not so much darkness but gianduja & licorice twilight where all disappears into thin cocoa dusk
Quality 18.3 / 20
Synergy & balance. Concept piece mating Bernachon's 20+% Nature Lait (Milk) to his 55+% Nature (Semi-Dark)... just lays them together & lets them do the deed for an ultra-blend sensation mainly about motion & movement. Goes beyond the obvious novelty play, visual (almost tatty appeal), & marketing value; less in any overt way as a candy bar or blow-pop surprises with radical shifts, & more by subtle graduated step-wise transitions building up remarkable cohesion & structure, soldered together by a thin scrim of hazelnuts.
Bottom line: flavor fine, reflecting that miscegenation is a thing of the past, that theobroma cacáo in the field can be both diverse & intermixed, whose current success with this should embolden further hook-ups like Milk + Amer, or more extreme still, Zero-to-100: White to Super Amer encapsulated in Askinosie's White Nibble.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, milk, nuts, vanilla bean, lecithin
Bottom line: flavor fine, reflecting that miscegenation is a thing of the past, that theobroma cacáo in the field can be both diverse & intermixed, whose current success with this should embolden further hook-ups like Milk + Amer, or more extreme still, Zero-to-100: White to Super Amer encapsulated in Askinosie's White Nibble.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter, milk, nuts, vanilla bean, lecithin