So, Divine emailed me a few days ago to tell me that they released a new bar to coincide with the summer and Wimbledon tennis tournament and offered me a bar to review. As strawberries and cream is the food of Wimbledon, it’s quite clever of Divine to have come up with a white chocolate bar with strawberry crisp mixed in.

Like all Divine chocolate, all the ingredients are fairtrade with their cooperative farm in Ghana. The strawberry crisp is only 3% but the mint bar only had 5% and I found that was more than enough, so I’d like to think it’s fair to assume that Divine have followed a fairly tried and true formula with regards to adding the fruity, crispy pieces to their regular white chocolate.

So when this bar popped through my door yesterday, I had quite the challenge of trying to put it off for a day, but I managed. Once I had taken the picture though, the wrapper was ripped right off, and so we have the picture below.

So, the bar’s all broken up. I think just about every bar I had from Divine before was broken so I’m used to it and frankly it doesn’t bother me, saves me the effort after all. First things first - appearance. As you can see the bar is a nice, creamy white, and is chock full of little red specks, the strawberry crisp pieces. It certainly looks pretty. Second thing second - smell. There isn’t much of one, it’s a bit creamy and a bit fruity, but there’s nothing that really jumps out at me.

And so the taste. Well, I ate this in two ways - chomping, and sucking. When the bar was chomped, it was white chocolate, there really was no strawberry in sight, like…at all. I could feel the crisp between my teeth, I was waiting for a burst of flavour and yet nothing. So, I popped in a piece and let it melt in my mouth. Ok…white chocolate…white chocolate…it begins to melt a bit more, I can feel the strawberry crisp bursting out of the chocolate…more white chocolate, creamy, milky…ooh! A little bit of strawberry! Yes! We got there in the end, though it was so faint. Slightly tangy on the tongue, the strawberry crisp is nice when tasted, but the white chocolate is FAR too overpowering.

It’s as if someone gave me a bowl with one strawberry and then poured an entire carton of cream over it. Delicious as it is, I wanted more of a mixture, and only when the cream subsides does that delicious strawberry come through. I’m a little disappointed, don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed this bar, but for me the ratio wasn’t quite right. Great idea on paper, but in practice it hasn’t quite been done right.

Each 100g bar has 534 calories, 7.6g Protein, 59.9g Carbohydrates (57.2g of which sugars) and 29.3g Fat (18.4g of which saturates).