Co-Op Truly Irresistible Fairtrade Belgian Milk Chocolate Hand Dusted Marc de Champagne Truffles

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Co-op Chamgpagne Chocolate Truffles

Isn’t the name a bit of a mouthful? Well whilst popping into my local Co-op to top up on a few essentials recently I saw these “Co-Op Truly Irresistible Fair-trade Belgian Milk Chocolate Hand Dusted Marc de Champagne Truffles” reduced from £3 to £1 – perhaps people got bored whilst reading the product name and just went to purchase what they already had in their basket?

One thing that really has started to annoy me recently is chocolate that has the words “luxury” to describe the contents, when the cocoa content is lower than Mississippi marshland resident’s IQ and they invest diddly-squat into using the finest in ingredients. It seems that anyone can’t put “luxury” on their packaging and get away with it. The problem is that many people buy “luxury” cheap chocolate, don’t get too excited about it and the really luxurious chocolate misses out because no-one will feel inclined to spend more on it.

Now, thankfully, these truffles don’t expressly state “luxury” on the box but they do, however, try and give the impression that the truffles are fine with their ‘truly irresistible’ note and the fact (?) that they are hand dusted. Well for me, there was nothing ‘irresistible’ about them. Perhaps it’s because I’m in the fortunate position to try some of the world’s best chocolate that I don’t really appreciate these too much. They may be fruity and dusty, but they’re not a patch on the Charbonnel et Walker Pink Champagne Truffles I reviewed last year. I know they’re ten times the price, but for me, if you’re buying Marc de Champagne Truffles then why buy inferior products? If you did really want great Marc de Champagne truffles then go for the Booja Booja Champagne Truffles. But people should also realise that price is not necessarily a guide to quality as can be experienced with the Fortnum & Mason Rosé Champagne Truffles.

Co-op Marc de Champagne Truffles

I know we can’t expect too much from a £3 box of Marc de Champagne chocolate truffles, but they did look decidedly average in the box. There are eight of them – all of which look as if they don’t want to be there. They seem to the battery farming equivalent of chocolate truffle production: unloved, unwanted. The raw ingredients could have been put to so much better use.

Co-op Champagne Chocolate Truffles

The shell was thick and crunchy, just like Charbonnel et Walker make their truffles. But with these, the shape was far less regular than the almost perfect and regimented than their more expensive cousins. Looking like fun-packed, chocolate filled miniature snowballs; they actually tasted as if all the snow had melted and you’re left with the remnants of a crashed up sledging competition. Perhaps that is hyperbole. It’s just there’s nothing exemplary about these truffles. They’re very sweet, slightly acidic, too sharp and, well, mutton dressed up as lamb.

Rating:
  • Taste: 60% – slightly above unexciting and missing a great opportunity
  • Texture: 65% – the shell was crunchy which I accept, however the truffle centre was nothing special
  • Appearance: 65% – the box was fine, however, they just looked average inside
  • Nutritional Information: 60% – there’s enough there to be getting on with
  • Price: 70% – the price is acceptable and comensurate with the quality of the product
  • Overall: 64% – I really had a craving for fine Marc de Champagne chocolate truffles and was let down.

 

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Nutritional Information:
  • Milk Chocolate (79%), (Fairtrade sugar, Whole Milk Powder, Fairtrade Cocoa Butter, Fairtrade Cocoa Mass, Emusifier (Lecithins – Soya)), Glucose Syrup, Evaporated Milk, Fairtrader Invert Sugar Syrup, Marc de Champagne (3%), Icing Sugar, Preservative (Sorbic acid)
  • Milk Chocolate containst Cocoa Solids 34% minimum, Milk Solids 20% minimum.
  • 65% Fairtrade ingredients certified to international Fairtrade standards
  • Contains Milk and Soya

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  • Tony

    I was seduced by the packaging and the fact that following Valentine’s Day overstocking, our local CoOp in Blackpool, were reducing them radically down to £1 a box. having a particular obsession with chocolate and in particular, chammpagne truffles, I bought 8 boxes to fed my addiction. However, I think I’d rather have eaten the box instead. They weren’t a patch on either M&S, Thorntons (I love their champagne egg) or Hotel Chocolate’s truffles. he remaining 7 boxes are going back tomorrow, under the CoOp’s ‘if you’re not entirely satisfied blah blah’ policy. On the whole, extremely disappointing in tasste, appearnace and probably value, even at £1 a box.