Simonne

This dark red offering has dark berries with a hint of chocolate and vanilla on the nose. Smooth but I feel like it's missing something; it tasted better after it sat for a while. There was a lingering coffee flavour on the palate. Paired with Mint Intense: A smooth pairing but the mint is very powerful.

Pieter

Chocolate, toast and red fruits on the wine's nose. The palate left almost a sweetish impression with minerals and I also picked up a very slight biological issue... I have an aversion to mint, so it will be unfair to articulate here how much I despise this particular chocolate, but what I will say is that it completely obliterated the wine.

David

The Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot blend was quite sweet on the nose yet allowed black currant and vanilla room to tempt you into taking a sip. On the palate the wine is characterized by black berries. When paired with the Lindt Mint I found that the wine could not stick up to the mint in the chocolate which seemed to overpower the fruit and the wine in general. In short I would once again just keep the chocolate for desert and not have both at the same time.

Robyn

The usual tart red fruit, little too much toasty staves and a burnt caramel finish. Different from the first blend but not much of an improvement, even with the extra year's age. Feed to the house-party guests who always ignore that BYOB request and then raid your collection.

The mint choc pairing didn't make the wine taste any better or any worse, just flattened the overall flavour. If you must pair it with chocolate, you'll survive this combo.

Ellen

Leaning towards garnet in colour, the medium to intense nose shows chocolate, mint and pine resin. The palate is medium-bodied, low in tannins and tasting of red fruit and mint. The back palate is unusual, slightly woody. With all this mint you'd expect the mint chocolate to be a good match, and you wouldn't be wrong. You wouldn't be right either. If they were a man and a woman the two could rub along quite nicely as companions but would never experience any great passion. Go for it if you really like your mint.