A little while ago Guylian released two 100g chocolate bars in milk chocolate and white chocolate varieties. I’ve never seen them on any sort of special offer and so hadn’t been too tempted to pick them up, but I finally bit the bullet and paid £1.49 per bar at my local Sainsbury’s, and today we’ll take a look at the milk chocolate version.

It comes in quite a stylish, almost Japanese style cardboard box which I really like the look of. The box has a pull tab close to the bottom which then pulls the bottom of the box off. Alternatively the back of the pack can be torn off should you wish to just rip into the thing. The back of the box describes this as “Belgian milk chocolate with pieces of hazelnut (14%)” which isn’t necessarily new to me, but I’ve reviewed a few Guylian products in the past and they don’t disappoint, so the hope is that they’ve put their own unique touch on the classic hazelnut-milk chocolate combo.

The bar comes within a gold foil wrapper, and is actually turned the other way when you first open it. It’s full of tiny pieces of hazelnut and as you can quite clearly see, as soon as I put my fingers on it the prints stayed on, which isn’t something you see too often. The bar is very long but not too thick at all, though as I mentioned they still managed to cram a lot of hazelnuts in there, and the taste definitely matches that.

The bar is great tasting, with a really strong hazelnutty taste. The chocolate is masked a bit by the hazelnuts which is a shame but it’s still a really good bar. I’m not sure if this bar will last in the rather bloated market, but Guylian have a good reputation and this lives up to it, and I’d recommend this bar over a lot of similar bars.