As it’s October, you can now get almost everything in orange, or in Pumpkin Spice flavour. As it turns out, alcohol is no exception to that. As it’s the season we decided to pick up the Mozart Chocolate Cream Pumpkin Spice edition when we spotted it online. I’m going to talk about it for a little bit today as part of our highly Halloween-themed Blogtober challenge.
Firstly, although it’s tough to see on the label, it is a dairy-based alcohol – like Tia Maria and Baileys. If you don’t like those – or have severe allergies – then just stay away. It’s got quite a lot in common with those two brands, however, it should definitely be noted that the flavour really, really comes through in this one.
That said, I’m actually not the biggest fan of pumpkin spice. But this is definitely not to the extremes that we see in other things (Coffee). Sipping it straight you almost immediately get the creamy texture coming though, this is actually almost syrupy. Then, rather than just the flavouring, the bite of the spirit comes through at the same time, with the bite dying away and leaving the taste. It’s nice, and it’s not bad drinking straight, although as with it’s dairy-based cousins I find that it’s better mixed with something else.
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