Lotte Ghana White Chocolate

White chocolate has a complicated reputation and Ghana White has spent decades quietly dismantling every negative opinion one smooth, creamy square at a time. Where lesser white chocolates lean into a sickly, one-dimensional sweetness that overstays its welcome approximately three bites in, Ghana White exercises a restraint and balance that puts it firmly in the category of white chocolate that even white chocolate sceptics find themselves unable to argue with. Lotte did not stumble into this. This was deliberate.

The flavour is milky and buttery with a gentle sweetness that feels considered rather than excessive, which is a considerably more difficult thing to achieve than it sounds when you are working with a chocolate that has no cocoa solids to provide any kind of counterbalance. The bar comes in the same familiar segmented format as its Ghana siblings, sitting in a box that looks considerably more innocent than either the Milk or the Black. That innocence is a marketing decision. The eating experience is anything but innocent, following the same reliable Ghana trajectory of one square becoming two becoming the quiet realisation that the wrapper is empty and you have no memory of making that happen. The Ghana family is complete. All three are dangerous. Ghana White is just the one that looks least like it.