Dolfin Milk Chocolate with Konacha Green Tea

Ingredients: sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, green tea (5%), natural vanilla, emulsifier: soya lecithin. Cocoa solids: 32% min. Milk solids: 20% min. I’ve had some good chocolate/tea experiences, so I had high hopes for this bar. Since it’s milk chocolate, it starts out sweet, and then the tea flavor emerges. It’s floral, and a little bitter, with the brown rice flavor that I associate with green tea. Similar to Dolfin’s dark chocolate with lavender bar, there are small bits that remain after the chocolate has melted, which in this case are pieces of tea. They’re mostly crunchy, but some are like threads. The bar’s too sweet for me, and I dislike the little bits left on my tongue. I think the bar would work better if they’d infused the tea in the milk instead of leaving it in. However, like the other Dolfin bars I’ve tasted, the balance between the ingredients was good; though the aroma of tea was very present, the chocolate dominated taste-wise.

Tags: Bar, dolfin, green tea