Jouvay 75% cocoa

                                   

About: This chocolate is made in Granada from chocolate grown in Granada by a partnership between local growers and LA Burdick, whose (excellent) chocolates I mentioned elsewhere in this blog. They make a handful of chocolates, mostly around 60% (tourists!), which they show nicely in an 'explain like I'm 5" fashion on their website.

Flavor:  Well.. it's a full flavor experience here. It starts slow, explodes into a fruity, raisinish aroma and finishes with an earthy, full, deep flavor. Very nice.

Texture: Just very slightly brittle, but overall smooth.

My rating:  A 7 for great 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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