Perugina NEGO Sfoglie 70% Cacao

                                   

About: Perugina is a venerable Italian brand with a marketing message that Perudina chocolate is saying "I love you the Italian way." I assume they mean it's chaotic, emotional, irrationally spontaneous and probably promiscuous, which is a lot for a bar of chocolate. They focus on their Baci brand, a filled chocolate with a whole hazelnut chaotically thrust into the little filled ball of Italian love. The Perugina line, which sees less love on their website, has a handful or so of different chocolates, many milk chocolates that shall not pass (these lips).

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Flavor:  This is a sweet, smokey chocolate, with a long follow-through that ends with notes of raisin and .. um... what a puddle of mud would taste like if chocolate tasted like puddles of mud. The smokey flavor is strong, and not to my liking particularly, even though it's not a flawed flavor. I can imagine that some people would really enjoy the distinctive, full flavor. Some. Not this person.

Texture: This chocolate comes in thin flat slabs - see the picture on the packaging. That means that it's a pleasantly delicate eating experience - you won't break your teeth on some hard textured slab. The chocolate is perhaps slightly chalky, but overall smooth.

My rating:  A 7 for interesting flavor and acceptable 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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