Tesco Finest Indulgent Drinking Chocolate Santo Domingo Single Origin

 

Not an instant hot chocolate. This one you add hot milk to it rather than hot water, but other than that it's the same thing. You don't need to cook it, just pour on the hot milk and stir. 

Info and instructions

There's not a lot of difference between this and regular instant hot chocolates. That it is single estate chocolate appears to be fairly meaningless as the cocoa powder is half sugar anyway, and will then be swamped in the milk. The character of the chocolate bean is likely to get lost under all that. We like it, but it is perhaps less silky and indulgent than the instants - perhaps due to the lack of dried milk in the ingredients. 

We tried it with some creme fraiche, and while that added body and silk, it was the wrong sort of cream, because it also added a sour note which didn't sit well with us. 

Date: Jan 2021    Score: 6

This is a pleasant hot chocolate. Easy drinking with a pleasant milky chocolate taste. We like it a little more than last time.  And it's in a new recyclable/reusable tin. 

 

The chocolate is named Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.  The Dominican Republic is one of the top ten producers and exporters of cocoa beans, and the Ciboa Valley, from where these beans come from, is a major grower of cocoa beans.  Columbus searched for gold in the valley. 

Date: Nov 2022  Score: 7