500g of chocolate. Five. Hundred. Grams of chocolate. That’s what this is, and it is bloody huge. Never before have I seen a bar this big, and boy am I impressed and somewhat daunted by this beast. I’ve had a few of the Hotel Chocolat slabs before but in more manageable portions, let’s see if it can be just as good when it’s five times as big.

The Summer Deckchair slab as it’s known on their website, is called the Fruity Five Stripes slab on the package itself. The name speaks for itself, as the bar has five stripes with different flavours, the two fruity stripes are red berries with a white chocolate base, then we have two milk chocolate stripes and the middle stripe is vanilla custard white chocolate.

The bar looks great, once you get over the size then it is very aesthetically pleasing. The back of the bar reveals that the middle stripe, the vanilla custard, is actually backed by milk chocolate, so essentially there’s only half the flavour there, as the rest are their own distinct flavours right the way through (i.e. no matter which way you face the bar it will look the same).

The fruity sections are the best, berries aren’t used too much in chocolate, and it’s also rare I get to have chocolate this good, so it’s a lovely combination. Anyone familiar with Hotel Chocolat will know that I don’t need to go in to too much detail about their chocolate, it’s as amazing as always, a very flavoursome milk chocolate, creamy and full of cocoa and without the sugar hit that cheap chocolate bars go for. The white chocolate was nice but I failed to detect any custard flavours there. It’s a bit of a shame because it seemed like a really interesting idea, perhaps it’s because it’s backed by milk chocolate? The difference in taste between white and milk was evident, it just lacked the special flavour I was hoping for.

Overall though, delicious. 500g of deliciousness. It sure was a lot of chocolate, but think about how long this could last you, or you could…share it? No, ridiculous thought, I know. Enjoy a month’s worth of chocolate right here.