chocolate tasting notes: el rey 'mijao'
with beans from the carenero region on the east coast of venezuela, venezuelan chocolatier el rey has crafted a mild 61% eating chocolate. an attractive, if not mirror-like finish out of the package, this single origin bar breaks open with a subdued crack. released is a robust bouquet of hardwood and vanilla. up front, deep brown notes play against raspberry, fading away into a modest finish of unsalted butter. smooth and fat in the mouth, though with less complexity and character than one expects in a single origin offering. perhaps the bucare, the same bar without the added cocoa butter, will reveal a bit more of these well-pedigreed beans.
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for vday, simon gave me a bunch of single origin chocolate bars. i am sharing them with him, but maybe i will stop if he keeps on posting boring tasting notes.
romance idea! you can post your tasting notes along with mine! couples tasting notes! what did you think of the mijao?
this is so nerdy.
my piece was dark brown with an el rey logo. the taste was chocolatey and sweet. there were some mocha notes. but the chocolate half of a mocha, not the coffee half.
i would eat another piece. so, i guess that would make it 10/10.
Simon, once you have finished with coffee, chocolate, cheese and wine, I look forward to your adventures sampling other delicacies. How about some sardine tasting? Maybe ketchup? How about Kool-Aid? I am sure Mila would be happy to help out...
Simon, please explain "fat in mouth." With wine, "fat" is a very negative characteristic, almost as bad as "flabby." Do you mean it as positive or negative with regard to chocolate?
surely flabbiness is just as undesirable in a chocolate as it is in wine. a certain fattiness, however, strikes me as sexy when found in a chocolate - expected, even, when dealing in the lower percentages. unfortunately, in the case of the mijao I feel as though the fattiness may have acted to mute the some of the complexities of the carenero beans. a bit of a double edged sword, I suppose. one craves that big, unctuous mouthfeel, but at what cost?
p.s. luke, a kool-aid tasting would indeed seem to be more in keeping with my environs.
sardines, though, are the new skate. surely a bit too nouveau-mediterranean for the l dot.
Outrageous.
~LK
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