I was quite surprised to find that before now I hadn’t actually reviewed Matchmakers from Nestlé before, despite them being a permanent fixture on supermarket shelves I guess they just never tempt me. I saw them at Sainsbury’s for £1 a box though and I thought that was a pretty fair price so picked up the two flavours they currently run and opted to go for the orange ones first.

Originally released in 1968 by Rowntree’s and given more brand awareness in 2003 by Nestlé, Matchmakers are basically long twigs of chocolate with boiled, flavoured sugar pieces within. You get a decent amount in the 151g box but for some reason they just don’t stand out to me too much. I’m not sure why they’re now part of the Quality Street range as well and what bearing that has on these, but on the back of the box they refer you to qualitystreet.co.uk.

They call these zingy orange and it’s a good title for them. These actually surprised me somewhat because they’re actually very nice. The chocolate is relatively ordinary but the orange is very sweet and tangy, the way it’s mixed with the sugar means it almost bursts with flavour in your mouth. For just one pound I was very impressed, though with an RRP of almost double that I’m not so sure. If you see them on offer and quite like orange flavoured chocolate then give these a go.