Cocoa Parlor Royal Dark 88 Peruvian Single Origin

About: Cocoa Parlor is a shop in Southern California that hand makes chocolates. This bar contains cocoa beans and sugar. Period. They have a range of dark chocolate, starting from 100% cocoa, down to 35% for people that want to waste their time. But just the fact that every bar is marked with its percentage prominently tells you that you're dealing with people that are passionate about chocolate.

The emphasis on vegan, gluten free, noy-free, organic, fairly traded chocolate seems unavoidable - their clientele must be mostly hippies. But you can't fault them for chocolate love.


Flavor:  The flavor is smooth. It's not very fruity and it's not as rich and earthy as you might get from a bar that's ostensibly fresh and bean-to-bar. And though  I found it completely good, I wanted to love it and be forced to emit some exclamation such as "omg, the flavor." But no.. it's fine. It's good. It stops there.

Texture: Very smooth and creamy. So many high percentage bars are brittle and almost crunchy - nott this. Very pleasant. Melts nicely in the mouth. Solid +1.

My rating: A very good bar with a solid 6 that could almost be a 7. Almost. 

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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