I’ll admit it….before I started this site, I had no idea candy companies made their candies in different flavors in other countries. Well, they do. Recently, Hershey’s has come out with multiple new flavors in the U.S. - Extra Creamy, Coffee, White Chocolate, Orange Creme, and Mint. In Japan, Kit Kat is made by Nestle and now also comes in Noir, Wine, Strawberry, and White Maple Syrup. The reviews for Strawberry and White Maple Syrup are coming next week. For an amazing full list of Kit Kat flavors (with pictures), check out the Wikipedia Kit Kat page.
The Reviews:
Noir: Both the Noir and Wine flavors come in small boxes containing 16 mini Kit Kat bars which are so freakin’ cute. The outside of the Noir is covered by a dark, bitter chocolate, there is a nut cream between the wafers, and it is dusted with a rich cocoa powder. The Noir Kit Kat is good…really good. It tastes expensive and decadent - not two words I usually associate with Kit Kat. If you like Kit Kat and dark chocolate, you should love Noir Kit Kat.
Wine: I don’t like red wine at all, so I was expecting to dislike this flavor, but I was pleasantly surprised. It didn’t taste like wine to me or my wife. It’s a super-creamy, slightly strawberry-ish flavor that tastes really good. The description of it says it has a distinct wine aftertaste, but I didn’t taste it at all. Despite (or because of it) the fact that it didn’t taste like like wine to me, it was quite good if not a bit sweet - almost too sweet. Definitely worth a try though.
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I just tried the white maple syrup ones today! …and I don’t have much of a review, so I’m glad you will.
I thought they were okay, but didn’t have much maple syrup taste.
December 29th, 2005 at 5:34 amHi — you asked on flickr what I thought of the wine kitkats. I did a bit of a writeup at my blog but the short of it is I’m quite fond of them now.
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:36 amI cant stop eating the wine ones! I like alcolhol anyway, so maybe these will ween me off the actual wine lol.
April 30th, 2006 at 9:32 amI just found out about regional kit kats a few months ago from the kit kat wiki, and I just ordered a bunch! Unfortunately I got on board too late to get any wine petits (maybe I’ll track some down yet) but I did manage to get some noir petits, even tho they expire in a month! I found a great japanese seller on ebay and also ordered some halloween-candy-style bags of Kit Kat Mango, Orange, Strawberry, Blueberry, Green Tea, and Kakigori (green tea outside + sweet akagi bean inside.) I also got a box of Kit Kat Exotic Hokkaido, which is supposed to be white cheese flavored outside with blueberry and passionfruit inside.
Unfortunately special edition kit kats seem to be some of the most difficult snacks to find online! I dont understand why the United States doesn’t get all these great special editions… somebody should write a letter!
RESPONSE: I think special flavored KitKats will be even harder to find soon.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:26 am–Brian
Being a wine lover, the Kit-Kats are for me!
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June 7th, 2007 at 8:38 pmMy friend brought me a package of Sakura (Cherry blossom flower) flavoured Kit-Kats straight outta Japan. They smelled sweet and were a pale pink and marbled white. Oh, They tasted so effing delicious. The after taste was exactly that of a flower. I’m Sad I Devoured Them So Quickly. But, At 130 Yen, I’d Stock Up On Them If I Were In Japan. Seriously, Let’s find a way to have american candy companies think smart and make our candy Cultured.
PEOPLE LIKE CULTURE;
OUR CANDY DEMANDS IT!
<33333 Jes
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am