Dars Milk Chocolate

Dars is the chocolate that has thought carefully about the experience of eating chocolate and made several quiet but important decisions as a result. Each piece is small and perfectly formed, and the milk chocolate itself is smooth and creamy with a melt that is genuinely exceptional, dissolving on the tongue with a clean, unhurried elegance that puts considerably more expensive chocolates in an uncomfortable position.

The box contains twelve pieces sitting loose and ready, which sounds generous until the eating begins and generous turns out to be optimistic. Dars sits in that specific category of Japanese snack that does not shout about itself, does not rely on novelty or seasonal gimmicks, and simply delivers an exceptional version of a familiar thing with quiet, consistent confidence. Morinaga have been making Dars since 1989 and have spent that time perfecting a melt that other chocolates study and cannot quite replicate. Small box. Serious chocolate. Gone before you registered making any real decisions about it.