In Japan, Valentine’s Day is all about chocolate, and the sweet treat isn’t just exchanged between lovers but friends, family members and even colleagues. So when the creative team at Starbucks put their heads together to create this year’s first Valentine’s Day Frappuccino in Japan, chocolate was chosen to be the star ingredient, with three new drinks featuring the decadent flavor.
Each beverage allows you to enjoy a variety of chocolate tastes and textures, which are said to be "woven together like an orchestra with unique instruments playing a variety of tones."
In keeping with this theme, the first drink in the lineup is the Classic Chocolat Symphony Frappuccino, which contains a mound of chocolate sauce in the base to deliver a deep richness alongside the slightly bitter taste of cacao. Chocolate sauce is blended into the milky body of the drink to create more mellow notes, with crunchy chocolate cookie pieces in the mix for texture. A fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate whipped cream sits on top, with chocolate sauce and a dash of sparkling gold powder to finish.
Rounding off the trio is the Classic Chocolat Latte, which captures the harmony of chocolate and espresso and combines it with steamed milk. Up top is a mound of rich chocolate whipped cream, embellished with a bitter dark chocolate powder for a complex symphony of flavors.
While the Frappuccinos will be sold in a Tall size only, priced at 736 yen each for takeout or 750 yen for drink-in, the latte is available in Short through to Venti sizes, priced from 599 yen to 740 yen.
With Starbucks giving us not one but two Frappuccinos every time Valentine’s Day rolls around, we can’t wait to find out what else the chain has in store for us during this romantic season. For now, though, the first round of drinks will be available at Starbucks stores nationwide while stocks last, from January 15 to February 14.
Source, images: Press release
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kurisupisu
750円？
They have to be joking!
Zaphod
What a way to describe a chemical-loaden sugar concoction. Got to love corporate prose. Eat a fruit instead, if you want something sweet.
kurisupisu
Starbucks is offering drinks full of sugar leading to obesity and the inevitable diabetes.
1glenn
1) I hope they make these available in the States.
2) In my experience, Starbucks uses whichever chocolate is locally available. In south Cal they use Hershey's, and in north Cal they use Ghirardelli. Ghirardelli is the better one. However, the best chocolate for use in drinks is Italian. That is what they should use.
リッチ
How many grams of sugar?
purple_depressed_bacon
January's barely started and they're already raving on about Valentine's Day. SMH.
Norm
It looks tasty.
I don’t have a sweet tooth, but my partner does, and I’d gladly buy her one for Valentine’s Day if she asked.
Yes, we all know they’re full of sugar. Thanks for that valuable reminder. Anybody who doesn’t know that should probably be institutionalized.
I sometimes go to Starbucks, but I see very few overweight people. Overweight people tend to be undereducated — like the ones who drop out of school at the age of 14 — and thus unlikely to be able to afford this kind of fare.
How many of these would I have to consume to become obese? Two? Three?