It’s funny. You would think that when stressed out a chocolate fiend like me would start hitting it hard. But for some reason I’m eating less and less chocolate and what I eat is often whatever I see at the grocery store that catches my eye. Luckily I still grab items like this Ritter Sport Milk Chocolate with Rum, Raisins & Hazelnuts (wow - long name) and absent-mindedly gnaw away. In the case of this “bar” (it’s hard for me to call Ritter’s neat squares bars) I opened the package and was floored by the strong scent of rum. There was no way to absent-mindedly eat something like this. I did, however, get most of the way through it before I thought to grab a picture. Oops.

First, I love the way Ritter Sport wrap their chocolate. It is so easy to open. There is a really nice seam that’s easy to split and allows you to quickly and neatly access the chocolate goodness sealed within. Yeah, I’m easily amused. As I alluded to earlier the bar smells like rum. Rum and chocolate. It really sort of hits you in the face with the whole rumminess of it all. I checked the ingredients and was surprised to find that rum – not rum flavoring or rum extract or anything like that – is an actual ingredient.

The bar… block… series of blocks?… is well formed as expected and just one look at the underside shows it studded with raisins and hazelnuts. One bite confirms what the bottom hints at: the bar is loaded with raisins and hazelnuts. I’m of the school of thought that if you are going to put things in your chocolate don’t skimp – do it up right and leave no bite lacking. This bar is chock full of the good stuff. And it tastes great too! It’s got a very strong rum flavor to it but it fit my mood to a t. Long story short I call it an 8.75 out of 10.

It should be noted that they have a version of the same…. err… not a bar… product sans the rum. I grabbed one at lunch today and it’s good too!

*EDIT*
Cybele of Candy Blog reviewed this one too! Head on over and check out her review!