Some creams are mixed with moonshine. The preponderance are mixed with whiskey of some sort. That one from South Africa was mixed with the fermented fruit of a tree I've never heard of. This is, oddly, the first one I have encountered that is mixed with wine. As a result, the ABV is... wait, is it actually higher than the average? Well, I don't know what's going on, unless the amount of wine in this is a whole lot more than the amount of whiskey in the others.
It's dark Yoo-hoo. It has that kind of watery clearness around the extreme ends that makes you think there may be something wrong with the beverage. The aroma is all kinds of chocolate. It is not the artificial chocolate that I sometimes run into with these flavored beverages, but it is instead a very rich, thick chocolate that is very pleasing. I know there's wine in there, but I don't know where it is.First sip is chocolate milk. It's the kind of chocolate milk that mom used to make where she would melt down a proper chocolate bar and stir it into the milk slowly and keep stirring until the chocolate was thick inside the milk, suspended in an almost impossible way. It tastes great.
Further sips are pretty much the same. It's very sweet, but the chocolate is enough texture to keep the whole thing going. The wine in the beverage may as well be alter wine, as I cannot taste the wine nor the attendant alcohol. Nope. Just chocolate milk. I note that they went ahead and said to not put this in with liquids that are acidic, and I think that has something to do with curdling the cream.
Bottom Line: Would be better with more alcohol bite or some echo from the wine.
3.5/5