About: It's interesting that a broad and excellent distribution system somehow devalues a product, because it's ubiquity detract from the sense that it's rare and hence exceptional. You can buy this chocolate everywhere in the world, and you're getting a decent bar. Lindt has some fantastic chocolates, and in my (shudder) days of eating milk chocolate, their ganache-filled Lindt balls seduced me. For me, this is a fine fall-back chocolate that perhaps shows that the reflexive denigration of broadly available products isn't always off. The chocolate is good, but not excellent.
Flavor: This chocolate has a solid flavor, though perhaps its texture is its true strong point. The vanilla comes through and complements the cacao flavor nicely. If you eat this chocolate in isolation, you will not be dissatisfied. It's a very (no really, very) smooth experience with a full chocolate flavor. But if you compare to another good bar, you'll see that the flavor falls short. Weak attack; weak follow through; and not so much there there... Good, but not excellent, and not as good as some other go to "daily" bars.
Texture: Very very smooth. This chocolate tastes as if it's very well conched. It's really creamy and very satisfying in this regard.
My rating: 7.5 on the scale of 1-10, where 10 means 'mind shockingly good' and 1 means 'would not bother'. A good, solid bar.
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