Tuesday, June 19, 2018

La Maison du Chocolat 74% Cuana Noir

 























About: Founded in 1977 in Paris, the Maison du Chocolat now has a number of boutiques worldwide. They make various chocolate confections, including a handful of dark bars. These are not bean-to-bar chocolates; they include vanilla and lecithin, but they are full flavored and the craftsmanship is apparent in the flavor. 

Flavor: Full bodied and mellow. There are no burned or sour after tastes. It's light on fruitiness, but round, earthy and pleasant.

Texture: Pretty good, if ever so slightly chalky.

My rating:  8 - good flavor, pretty good texture. Above average for sure.



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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