From the "Meiji The Chocolate" series, a new flavor "Light Aged Vivid Milk" will be released on May 30th. The estimated price is 220-230 yen (excluding tax).
"Meiji The Chocolate" is a chocolate series of "Bean to Bar" that is made with particular attention from making cacao beans to processing into chocolate. The "light aged vivid milk" to be released this time is a genre called "dark milk chocolate" that you cannot hear.
What is "dark milk chocolate"?
Dark milk chocolate is a "milky but bitter" chocolate that uses a lot of cacao while adding milk and suppressing sugar. The cacao content is 54%, which is about the same as bitter chocolate, but the taste is mellow because it uses milk. Still, because the cacao content is high, you can enjoy the rich chocolate taste.
In other words, it's a chocolate that you can enjoy the good parts of both milk and bitter. Because the sweetness is suppressed, the taste of milk can be felt more clearly than normal milk chocolate. I also want the bitter chocolate group, who tend to avoid it with the image that "milk chocolate = strong sweetness", try it.
The sweetness is modest, so it is also recommended for bitters
In fact, the "Dense Depth and Umami Velvet Milk" (red package) and "Gentle Fragrant Sunny Milk" (purple package), which are already on sale from the same series, are also dark milk chocolates. The former is characterized by a savory flavor like nuts, and the latter is characterized by a sweet and gorgeous flavor like fruits and flowers.
The two types on the right are also dark milk chocolate
If you compare these with the "lightly aged vivid milk" released this time, you can see that it has a well-balanced flavor that seems to have just taken a break. It's not a striking flavor, but you can concentrate on the rich and strong flavor of milk and chocolate. The refreshing aftertaste is also characteristic. Also, if you compare eating based on this, you will be able to grasp the difference between the above two flavors more systematically.
It's fun to eat and compare
This new flavor uses cacao beans that are "almost the same" as "Meiji The Chocolate Dominica Dark Milk," which was sold only at some department stores and Salon du Chocolat Tokyo during this Valentine's season. It seems to be. Good news for those who missed it and who liked it.
Enjoy the "almost the same" taste as limited chocolate nationwide!
It is said that some cacao beans cultivated by the Meiji era all over the world have not yet appeared. Meiji The Chocolate is a series that I'm looking forward to developing flavors in the future.
