Review Lindt Swiss Thins

Being extremely busy at my day job I apologize for missing Thursday’s review. I hope this review will make it up to all of you who visited in vain.

Starting out with the facts, these Lindt Swiss Thins, contain 52% chocolate (min.) and come in box of 200g containing 80(!) making each thin weighing in at approximately 2, 5. There are eight compartments each containing 10 thins. The chocolate contain only the five basic ingredients of a quality chocolate namely cocoa mass and butter, sugar, emulsifier and vanilla.

The Thins come in a very elegant box, and the chocolate thins are also elegant looking, with Lindt in the signature font being written on them The colour is a nice if somewhat light brown. Appearance: 8 out of 10.

The aroma is nice with sweet cocoa and notes of smoke and - as with the Lindt Excellence 70% I reviewed here – a little rubber. Fortunately, the rubber is, in comparison, toned much down, though it still, in my opinion detracts from the aroma. Aroma: 7, 5 out of 10.

The Thins have an excellent almost brittle snap, due to their thinness and a nice melt. Texture: 8, 5 out of 10

Whereas the thinness is good for texture and mouth feel, I think it less good for flavour as it is hard to taste much in such a thin and only 2, 5g piece. Particularly considering that this is a 52% chocolate “only”. Thus I found myself having to take two thins in order to appreciate the flavour properly, which I guess is not the desired effect of an elegant offering box like this. The Thins are much less sweet than I would have expected from a 52% chocolate. They do taste of cocoa but there is no fruit, acidity or complexity in the flavour. It does, however, have a very unpleasant bitter and smoky aftertaste. Flavour: 6, 5 out of 10.

The format of 80 2, 5g thins has its own challenges as pertains flavour. Another challenge is that of having 10 thins on top of each other in each compartment. The effect is that quite a few of the thins are stuck together as they are not separated with paper or a individually packed such as The After Eight Thins are – and probably for this same reason. I think Lindt should consider a solution to this problem as individual pieces sticking together may cause the chocolates to go mouldy.

Average: 7, 625 out of 10