Amedei 70% Toscano Black

                                   

About: Amedei chocolates emerged in 1998, after 8 years of fiddling by the company founder. Their English site claims they are "Excellent with a Capital A for Amedei". This particular bar is Chocolatey with a capital O for Okay.

The company has a range of chocolate bars, spreads, and filled chocolates and does reflect an artisan feel. The packaging does too. The chocolate is hermetically sealed and wrapped in a nicely folding thick paper wrapper that makes you feel like you're indulging in something expensive (yes) and superb (not so much). In fact, the artisanship and (ok, I'm shallow) wrapping will probably have me coming back to this perfectly okay chocolate to see if I missed something.

Flavor: Okay. Nothing wrong with it. But that's it. The flavor is not subtle or long lasting. The flavor profile greets you, stays briefly, and leaves - all very quickly. There's not flavor magical mystery tour to be had.

Texture: Slightly on the brittle side, especially for a 70% bar.

My rating:  I give it a 6 for flavor and feel guilty it's not more, but really.. it's just a fine bar but not much more.

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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