Appearance: Mid-brown. It’s darker than milk chocolate but not as dark as high-cocoa chocolate and it has the reddish-purple colour you see in thick Italian-style drinking cocoa. It is completely opaque and thick, like a thinned chocolate sauce. Aroma: Milk chocolate with a wisp of alcohol. A touch of vanilla and some furtive spice notes, but mainly just chocolate. Flavour & Texture: The texture is thick and heavy, like melted chocolate thinned with a little cream. Like the aroma, this is very much a one-note liqueur that is focused entirely on cocoa. The flavours of the Licor 43 base spirit are pretty much hidden and although there are subtle hints of spice and some vanilla you could easily think this had a neutral spirit base. Perfectly acceptable as an occasional chocolate indulgence, in fact it’s very much the liquid counterpart of a reasonable quality European chocolate. However it verges just a little too much on being overly sweet, which is the most obvious sign of Licor 43 in the foundation. Mrs Cascode & I both enjoyed this, although it was more to her taste than mine. It’s not the best chocolate liqueur we’ve tasted, but neither is it the worst. We finished the bottle quickly, but probably half was mixed with mascarpone to make a very good chocolate sauce for the sliced strawberries we’ve been enjoying recently. “Above Average” : 81/100 (3.25 stars)