Ocelot 88% Chocolate

About: Ocelot is a labor of love, created by a couple (who look oh-so-loving in the write-ups about them). I don't know if their relationship is lovey-dovey, but their chocolate is. They're a Scottish boutique manufacturer(currently 4 people) with a few bars ranging from 70% to 88%.

Flavor: You can tell this is a bean-to-bar chocolate, as it's full of fruity flavor and a complex flavor profile. This Porcelana bean bar will fill your mouth with flavor. It's slightly bitter and slightly sour, but the flavor comes on strong (for an 88% bar, especially). It's raison-ish,

Texture:Wow, smooth - not crunchy at all for this much cacao. Nice.


My rating:  Solidly 8, with a stretch to 9, maybe, for flavor and texture that's much better than average. It fell short of 9 for me because of the sour flavor and slight bitterness.

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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