Lindt Excellence Blueberry Intense
Hooray! After pleading on Chocablog (and I’m sure it is what made all the difference), We Can Has a few new Lindt offerings in the wide brown land Down Under.
I was in my local Foodland today buying the makings of another Chocolate Sorbet, and stumbled upon the Lindt Excellence Blueberry Intense. How cool was that? All thoughts of sorbet gone – I had to have one of these for trying, and preferably RIGHT NOW!
But Blueberry? Seriously?
Blueberry is difficult at the best of times. Even when fresh, blueberries often seem to me to taste mainly of sweetness and a bit of water. The flavour is small, subtle, and a difficult one to tease out when things are going well. They do work quite well in muffins and some cakes. In most chocolate I really have to work to pick the blueberry flavour. So the big question is: Have Lindt Pulled It Off This Time?
The contents of the pack are your standard Lindt block with almond slivers (as per the orange / lemon and various others of the “Excellence” range). A check on the ingredients shows sugar at the top, the blueberry is a mere 2%, next come apple and pineapple in some unspecified amounts. For texture or a filler I suppose. Flavouring also appears – we’re not told what it is though.
The aroma is pretty much that of your standard middle-weight (not quite light, not quite dark) chocolate – rich and slightly earthy and perhaps a tiny hint of fruitiness.
The taste: there is a little fruity hint or highlight running through the flavour. But is it blueberry? After 2 of the regulation size Lindt squares (about 20 grams) I still can’t tell.
I passed it around the family. We all agree this is slightly fruity and very nice. Does it deserve to be called Blueberry Intense? I’m still not sure.
Information
- Contains dark chocolate (47% cocoa solids).
- Filed under australia, blueberry, dark chocolate, lindt.
They have this in Canada too, or at least in some parts of Canada. I saw it when I was in Montreal along with Intense Pear and thought it meant it would be in New Brunswick shops when I got home again so I didn’t bother. But it isn’t. Or at least isn’t yet.
Lucky for me, we got the Mueller chain here (Slovenia) so we get some of the german Lindt imports. They recently got a bunch of their summer flavours:
http://www.lindt.com/de/swf/ger/produkte/tafeln/sommertafeln/
hopefuly a link is ok. The new bars also come in a new shape, pretty interesting. I need to go back for more. :/ Seems the Germans are also hiding some Milka flavours I haven’t seen in the local supermarkets apart from Mueller.
Yeah, i saw this in my local Coles and pounced on it too, fruity and nutty, like a fruit and nut chocolate :D. Only Swiss. :P
they also have the Sea Salt, which is weird, little crystals of salt in the chocolate….
It’s also available in Sweden. Actually, this one in your picture is the one that’s available in Sweden – it has the description in the right lower part written in Swedish. And they also have Raspberry Intense and Cranberry Intense Excellence bars there. And another new Excellence bar that I was also able to find here in Romania last week, Caramel Intense Dark. Actually… the one that I bought last week was produced in Switzerland for Sweden as well.
Raspberry & Cranberry – now those are flavours I’d like to try!
Found this yummy Lindt blueberry intense while in S Africa but cannot find it anywhere in the UK – sigh.