Whole Milk Blueberry Gin Filled

Whole Milk Chocolate with a blueberry gin filling

Berger Confiserie's Whole Milk Blueberry Gin is a filled milk chocolate bar with a creamy ganache of dark berry and real gin. A tender, milky melt outside, a berry-botanical filling inside, grown-up and surprising, an aperitif in bar form. For anyone who likes things less sweet and a little different.

Whole Milk Blueberry Gin Filled is Berger Confiserie's name for a milk chocolate with 37 percent cocoa and a creamy filling of blueberry and just under 2 percent gin. The berry brings dark fruit, the juniper its spice, bound with cream into a velvety center: fruity, spicy, elegant. A confection for grown-ups, with a character all its own.

Dark berry meets juniper

First the mild, milky melt, then the creamy filling, where the dark berry and the herbal spice of the gin come together. A bite that begins sweet and ends spicy.

The whole milk provides a round, milky base, and within it the berry with its dark, slightly tart fruit. The juniper lays its herbal touch over it, subtle but distinct, and gives the sweetness a grown-up edge. Cream binds everything into a velvety center that melts on the tongue. Fruity, spicy, elegant – this is how a bar tastes that is more reminiscent of an aperitif than of a sweet treat.

Blueberry and real gin

For the filling, Berger stirs cream with blueberry juice and real spirit into a creamy ganache and encases it in tender whole milk chocolate. The cream contains real gin.

Cocoa butter, whole milk powder and cocoa mass form the shell; the filling takes its character from blueberry, juniper spirit and cream, and a little red beet gives it its dark color. That way the filling stays a deep violet, made without any artificial coloring.

The cocoa carries the Fairtrade mark, as do the raw cane sugar and the vanilla. If you'd like fruit without alcohol, you'll find it in the milk chocolate with raspberry pieces among our chocolate bars.

Filled bars from Lofer

Filled bars with fine spirits are among the specialties of Berger Feinste Confiserie in Lofer, where confectioners stir every ganache themselves. It has been a fixture of the house for a good 30 years.

Hubert and Christine Berger started out in 1994 in a garage in Salzburg's Saalach Valley; today the company has around 100 employees and nine shops. Varieties with spirits call for a delicate touch, because too much alcohol drowns out the fruit and too little gets lost, an approach Christine and Hubert have followed from the very beginning. Another variety with spirit is the Dark Chocolate Whisky Orange.

With a gin and tonic and with blue cheese

The bar holds 100 g of filled chocolate, for breaking into pieces and sharing. With a gin and tonic, an espresso or to round off a meal, the spicy bar really comes into its own. Stored cool and dry, away from strongly scented neighbors in the cupboard, the shell and filling keep their shape nicely. At room temperature, the center turns especially soft and aromatic.

A gin and tonic, with its juniper, picks up the trail of the filling, and it is just as much at home with coffee after a long meal. The dark berry also plays along nicely with a piece of blue cheese or a glass of port. As a small gift for friends of juniper, the bar goes down well, as does the rest of the Berger range with its filled and plain varieties.