Shufersal (supermarket) Premium 81% Chocolate

                                     

About: This is an Israeli supermarket brand of chocolate that sports a Swiss flag as inducement to buy, and is (indeed) made in Switzerland.

Flavor: It's a dark chocolate with flavor that comes on slowly and starts with slightly bitter earthy flavors that won't fill your senses, but spread nicely over your palette due to the fantastic texture (see below under Fantastic Texture). Overall, the flavor department isn't the super strong point of this chocolate, but it's not at all bad. It's just earthy, not too fruity, and just so slightly bitter.

Texture: Very smooth. You'd think it would be brandless-and-crap, but it's smooth and .. um.. smooth. For 81% it's doubly impressive. 

My rating: I think the texture won me over. I'd be tempted to seven this one, but because the flavor falls just a tad short, I'll 6 it.

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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