About: This is a bean-to-bar chocolate - nothing but beans and sugar - made in Australia on vintage equipment. It's unclear if the vintage equipment makes this better; I tend to think technological advances can make things much better (think California wine industry, for example), but I am sure the price was right. The company is named after the founder, and they make a handful of dark chocolates with various flavorings.
Flavor: This chocolate has a complex flavor, which I struggled to capture. It was a whirlwind of flavors that came and went. So.. high five for that. The flavor comes on slowly. Take your time, let it melt. It then becomes raison-ish, full flavored, and ends with slightly sour cranberry notes.
Texture: Somewhat brittle with a smooth, yet ever so slightly grainy finish.
My rating: Good chocolate. Really very good. But overall about a 6 for above average flavor.
| 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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