Original, whipped cream, espresso, and raspberry flavors are available in addition to the Original. There are many different places that sell Chocovine, so you should have no problem finding it.ĬhocoVine had to go through two years of research before it was perfect. You can find it at your local grocery store, liquor store, or even online. Chocovine can be found at many different retailers, both online and offline. It is a sweet wine that is perfect for any occasion. Would I Buy It Again: No thanks, I prefer mixing my own drinks.įinal Synopsis: Perfect if you like mudslides, pointless if you like wine.Chocovine is a unique and delicious wine that is made with real chocolate. Would I Recommend It: A good gift for lovers of sweet liqueurs. There is no nutrition information posted on the bottle so, you know, be a little dubious.
*The Nutrition Facts below are based on website data only. If you’re looking for a substitute for a creamy, sweet, mildly alcoholic drink this would be a great stand in for your Kahalua or Baileys – as long as you don’t mind the somewhat dismal look. It’s sweet enough and chocolaty enough that you’ll be able to finish your glass. That said, there’s nothing untasty about this drink. They would be just as well off if they we’re using some of Trader Joe’s two buck chuck. It’s enough to make you wonder why Europa is so big on billing how fine the wine is that they’re using. Take a sip and you’ll be hit with a sharp bite, then swept up in a very sweet, very chocolaty liqueur taste, which finally fades into a subtle, almost imperceptible wine tail. There’s almost nothing of the wine taste left in this drink by the time Europa has finished with it. This is due in part to the large amounts of chocolate that have gone into the drink, but also thanks to a large amount of cream or, as the website puts it, “the finest Dutch cream”, that goes in as well. That’s not to say the two taste identical, but they’re shockingly close. So if you can get past appearances, what can you expect? What, to return to our thought experiment, does red wine blended with chocolate taste like? The answer, surprisingly, is a mudslide. Europa went to market with it anyway – that shows some confidence. I feel like normally, in the R&D process, someone is supposed to bring this up, maybe suggest that it’s going to be hard to sell a drink that looks like it was scooped out of a wet pothole. Behind the stock photograph of tulips and windmills is 750ml of fluid that looks, to put it generously, like ditch water. The first thing you’re going to notice is the bottle. The name is not the first thing you’re going to notice about ChocoVine, however.
“Wait a minute – it’s chocolate and wine? Why not ‘ChocoVine’! That clumsy, obvious portmanteau does a great job conveying our core principals of elegance and decadence, right?” I don’t know, maybe it’s just the stripped down efficacy of the Dutch. It’s the sort of name that feels like it was brainstormed during a marketing meeting between an unimaginative person and a lazy person. Using the “judging a book by it’s cover” approach which, contrary to the advice of Levar Burton, I generally find pretty effective ChocoVine does not have a lot going for it.įor one, I have a hard time telling people the name of the product without feeling stupid. It’s the classic case of “A is good, and B is good, so naturally if we just smash them up into each other they’ll be great!” Occasionally this works, occasionally it doesn’t, but just looking at ChocoVine the deck is stacked against it. I really feel like this is an amazing find, if only because it’s one of those products that makes you question your sanity and the sanity of all mankind. So it was with mouth literally agape that I stood facing the aisle-wide display for Europa ChocoVine at Trader Joe’s the day before Christmas. Try again – close your eyes, imagine that crisp alcoholic taste of a fine red wine, then imagine blending that with a couple chocolate bars. Imagine, if you will, the taste of dutch chocolate and fine red wine – only blended together into a brownish gray fluid and packaged in a bottle calling itself “ChocoVine”.
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