Artisana Organics Venezuelan Criollo Cacao Chocolate 75% Dark

About:  Artisana Organics has a product line of organic products from nut butters (grow up and stop giggling) to oils to chocolates. They sell 65% , 75%, and 85% chocolates made from Criollo beans.

The Criollo bean was once the most popular source of chocolate, but the tree is more susceptible to disease, and it has now become relatively rare.

Flavor: This bar has a complex flavor, but not at all fruity. It does have notes of tobacco, with a sort of subtle smokey after taste. +2

Texture: Every so slightly brittle, but with a smooth finish.

My rating: A nice 7.

Rating Value	Meaning
1	Really bad chocolate. There's something just really really wrong here in almost every imaginable respect.
2	A bar with this rating has at least two drawbacks.
3	A bar where something is starting to get seriously wrong.... for example, really weak flavor with an otherwise acceptable texture.
4	This bar is below average, but just slightly. Mostly it's not worth eating again. Something isn't quite up to par, for example a poor texture but fine flavor.
5	This is an average good bar that's worth eating. There's nothing really wrong with it, but also nothing particularly spectacular. Or, perhaps it has a good characteristic that's evenly counter-weighted by something weak.
6	A solidly good bar with one characteristic that's above par, for example a great texture.
7	An solidly good chocolate that has two above par characteristics, but nothing mind-blowing. Good, above average flavor, but nothing to die for.
8	An excellent bar with no weaknesses and at least one characteristic that's super.
9	An awesome bar to die for with amazing texture and flavor.
10	You have been touched by God.

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