Dolce Cioccolato

Appearance: Opaque dark brown/grey. In some lights it looks olive-drab. It bears an unnerving similarity to a puddle of muddy water with an oil haze on top. Aroma: Milk chocolate. Flavour and Texture: Very sweet milk chocolate with a background note of caramel - rather confectionary in taste. The texture is syrupy to the point of being gloopy and cloying. We bought this last weekend from a pop-up stall where we also bought a bottle of limoncello. This is made by the same people (Cello), but on the bottle it is styled "Dolce by Cello". This is from their range of lower proof liqueurs that are milk based. The colour is unusual and not very appetising. It does not look like the colour in the thumbnail for this listing, being much more grey-green in tone. I expect it is actually a very natural product with the colour not being artificial, but in this case a drop of dark brown colour would not have hurt. The flavour is pleasant, but ordinary. They say this is milk-based and I would not be at all surprised if they actually used condensed milk - either that or there is some sort of cooking or pasteurising process going on because the milk definitely seems caramelised. Not very inspiring. I wish I could be more complimentary but this is a sub-par product and it's not particularly cheap. It's almost twice the price of Mozart Gold but it compares to that liqueur as Hersheys does to Lindt. "Inferior" : 68/100 (1.75 stars)