Durci 70% Joya Rara chocolate

                                   

About: Durci is an American chocolate manufacturer with a handful of 70% cocoa bars made in Utah. Their chocolate is cocoa beans, sugar, and cocoa butter - so sort-of bean to bar - ish. There's not a lot of information on their web site, which has the feel of two guys in a garage (which is totally okay). You know it's not okay when someone says "which is totally okay." Oh well.

Flavor:  While they claim that this bar is made  "from a special heirloom cocoa bean rediscovered several years ago" and that it is "composed of roughly 40% white beans ... with a characteristic light orange-brown color with a taste that is slightly sweeter than most cocoa beans." But for me, the flavor was on the flat side.

Texture: Unfortunately wildly brittle in an unpleasant way. After the initial "did I just bite into a piece of plastic" is over, the flavor is okay.

My rating:  A 5 for okay flavor but loss of points for texture. 

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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