Venchi Milk Chocolate with Cream and Caramelized Rice Bar Bar

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Venchi Milk Chocolate with Cream and Caramelized Rice Bar
Italy
About $8

Presentation is okay. Box isn’t much, and the chocolate is in a silver wrapper. Both seem kind of cheap. The chocolate itself looks nice, though. It is divided into the traditional square pieces, but each chocolate square is topped with a concave mound containing the filling, with the Venchi signature (a V) written on each square.

The chocolate is crunchy, with strong hazelnut tones. There is some caramel, but for some reason it seems to me more like a gritty gianduja taste. The crunch of the caramelized rice is nice, but the flavor is off-putting. It’s especially cloying on the 1^st taste, but the flavor moderates as it is savored in the mouth. Still, the chocolate is too sweet, especially with the combination of the milky sweetness with the caramel of the filling. Kind of tastes like a high-quality candy bar (that’s not a compliment, especially for something so expensive). It has no length and is rather monotonous. Far too expensive for a candy bar.