Hey guys- I first heard about Schmitten Chocolates when I read a newspaper article about how some big real estate mogul wanted to tap the exploding chocolate market in India. My thoughts were:
Schmitten is a pretty good name — sounds German/Swiss enough, while being alluring.
I’m pretty sure the chocolates are going to be crappy because real cocoa and real cocoa butter is expensive.
Swiss-made chocolate in Surat? Ahem. Reminds me of Scotch whiskey made in Amritsar.
I decided to try Schmitten Intense Dark(to figure out how dark is dark) and Schmitten Creamy Milk(to figure out how milky is milk). There are a whole bunch of other flavours with raisons and nuts and orange peels, but I was interested in understanding their quality of chocolate so decided to be pure in my choice.The flavour of the Intense Dark flavour, I have to confess, was not good. It was dark enough, not too sweet, Schmitten was smoother, but not in the best way.
The Creamy Milk chocolate, on the other hand, was quite disappointing It was overly sweet, not chocolatey enough, no substance to it.Schmitten chocolates are priced at Rs 60 for 50 grams.After tasting this chocalate I think the cost of choclate is much more according to the taste.