Michel Cluizel Noir 72% Dark

                                   

About: Michel Cluizel is a bean-to-bar French manufacturer that makes 1400 tons of chocolate annually. So they are a volume producer, but with aspirations of careful, hand-made quality.

Flavor:  Pleasantly full flavored, with bitter almond overtones. The flavor develops slowly, but after the initial bitterness it resolves to a full earthy flavor. Not really as fruity as some bean-to-bars, though.

Texture: Wow, so smooth, especially for such a high cocoa content bar. Super.

My rating:  A  7 for okay flavor and great 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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