Guittard does an excellent job at making their bars look immaculate. Needless to say, there isn’t anything to note except that the bar looks absolutely fantastic, right down to the color, which is a light but deep burgundy color. The aroma, however, is subtle and weak, a poor potency for the elegant notes of jasmine that seem to get lost under the chocolatiness, which again is coy and fair.

With flavor, though, it seems our fair lady opens up quite nicely. Chucuri is instantly serene and calm yet highly flavorful, kissing us with jasmine and rose and a chocolatiness level that’s just bold enough to provide backbone and to prevent one from being smothered in flowers. This theme pervades, and some melon peaks in at the end, but overall this is the very definition of feminine flavor, delivered with a strength that is certainly not lacking.

With such a decidedly delicate flavor, Guittard should have invested the extra time to polish the texture, but instead they left it dusty and dry. It’s like seeing a radiant beauty across the room only to discover, once up close, a complexion blemished by acne. Nonetheless, it’s the almost sexy but definitely alluring quality of the flavor that seduces from first bite. Chucuri is also the lightest chocolate to come out of Colombia, which adds a bit of variation to what has been so far a very stocky and "red" origin.

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Visually, there aren't many bars that match the finish of Guittard. On unwrapping, the bar looks lustrously smooth, a truly shiny dark brown, that almost invites you to touch it. Here is the sign of a superb temper and with no trace of bubbles or ripples it's clear Guittard has carefully moulded these.

The bar doesn't exactly present a strong aroma presence - it's mild, almost faint, although it's alluring: with floral hints prevailing along with a suggestion of cocoa and tobacco. As it happens, though, this is merely a tease, an introduction to the seduction which will continue with the tasting. The bar immediately glides in with a wonderful, exotic rose floral taste, mixed with refreshing melon accents. Slight creamy touches then cushion the palate before evanescent suggestions of tobacco make their appearance in the finish. It's all very ethereal, all very feminine, a chocolate you can fall in love with.

It's not perhaps as silky and smooth as one might hope, with that incredible flavour, but it's nonetheless reasonable, slightly dusty perhaps as is Guittard's style (much like Amedei). It *might* be a bit on the sweet side, however, Guittard displays such consistent mastery in this percentage range that one feels perhaps less sugar would make the bar turn out worse. And why change such an exquisite chocolate anyway? This is *the* feminine chocolate, a valentine from Guittard to us.

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