the sweet scrapbook

Sunday again, time for Lindt again. Because November is Lindt Month (though any month is just as good for trying Lindt chocolate... well, excepting hot summer months for trying Lindors - those balls become such an awful mess when it's hot). This time, it's a bar that I have tried before, but decided it was time to try again. Something very, very simple. A Lindt Swiss Milk chocolate. Now the only format in which such a chocolate is widely available here is the 300g Lindt Swiss Premium Chocolate. The big "golden" (or "silver") bars. One might also find a 100g or 125g Lindt Swiss Milk bar at a petrol station or a supermarket that sometimes has more "exotic stuff," but I really didn't have time to waste and the thought of going through maybe more than thirty petrol stations and ten supermarkets before finding a 100g or 122g Lindt Swiss Milk bar (or giving up!) was not appealing at all!

The wrapper looks... well it's not the best looking Lindt wrapper, that's for sure! I always love seeing the Lindt logo, the Lindt font, and I like the idea of having a golden wrapper for what is supposed to be a premium range. I've always found the image on this bar a bit uninspired. The milk is white, the bowl is white, that... thing (what do you call that in English?) from which the milk is poured into the bowl is white. There is no image of Lindt chocolate blocks, which I think it's a pity as the actual Lindt chocolate inside the wrapper always looks pretty.

Just like the previous two 300g Lindt Swiss Premium Chocolate bars, this bar was divided into 40 blocks, each one of them being decorated with the Lindt name on top. The smell, the taste... no surprises here, either. It was nothing but a fine Lindt milk chocolate. Not Lindt's finest milk chocolate (nothing can beat the melt of the Excellence Extra Creamy), but it was still a pleasure to simply let it melt on the tongue. One thing I'm not so crazy about (and maybe I'm being way too picky or way too used to the Excellence format) is the fact that it can get a little difficult to break a block into more than two smaller pieces. With an Excellence bar, it's really easy to break those thin square blocks into two, four or eight pieces.

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, lactose, skim milk powder, emulsifier: soya lecithin, barley malt extract, flavouring; may contain: traces of hazelnuts, almonds; cocoa solids: min. 31%; milk solids: min. 14%.

Storage: in a cool and dry place.

Nutritional info per 100g of product: 530kcal, protein 6.5g, fat 31g (saturated 19g), carbohydrate 57g (sugar 56g), sodium 0.091g. This is the first time I see nutritional information on a Lindt bar that was produced in Switzerland.

Price: 15.59 lei (300g bar); that's the equivalent of €3.64/ ₤3.11/ $5.