Impact
A brown-out. If you love bitter agony, like licking hot Georgia asphalt in the middle of summer, & have a problem, indeed an intense dislike for simpler pleasure, then this is not for you.
Appearance 3.9 / 5
| Color: | crimson brown |
| Surface: | smooth front; backside pocked & pitted (nibs) |
| Temper: | uneven |
| Snap: | muted; cobbled break line |
Aroma 7 / 10
serene leather, wood, & tobacco around dried fruit
Mouthfeel 12.3 / 15
| Texture: | wafer-crisp; thin |
| Melt: | peaceful disintegration |
Flavor 43.1 / 50
begins w/ a brown-out: Turkish figs, brown sugar & brown butter -> cocoa honey reaches deeper to chocolate -> modulates sweeter fruit (dates/mulberries) in the midsection -> nibs steady flavors, planing on roasted cocoa caramelized by so much dried fruit -> cherrywood & golden tobacco -> sugars keep coming... raisins -> lengthens w/ final nib dispersion on almond café
Quality 17.2 / 20
Good match of cocoa base (basically Marcolini’s Fleur de Cacao) to nibs (probably from Ghana), the latter seemingly roasted in a sugar bath, coated in furans. Nibs so often just flatten a profile; here they add warm depth of moderate scale.