Mr. X
Kings Liquors
Greenhithe, Auckland
New Zealand.

Dear Mr. X,

Recently I purchased a bottle of your white creme de cacao liqueur from an outlet in Wellington. I'm a bit worried that there may be something wrong with it, however, because while everything I've read and heard about white creme de cacao lead me to expect that it would taste of chocolate, your product does not. Taste of chocolate, that is. Well, possibly very faintly, but only that. In fact I would be much more prepared to suggest that it tastes like vanilla.

For your reference and mine, DrinksMixer.com states of white creme de cacao that it is "A colorless chocolate-flavored liqueur made from the cacao seed". While your product is cerainly almost colourless (a faint but acceptable yellow-ish tint is observable), there ain't no "chocolate-flavoured" to be spoken of.

So I would greatly appreciate it if you would please either (a) convince me that my expectations for its "chocolatey-ness" (is that even a word? I'm sure you know what I mean either way) are far too high; or (b) agree that there may be something wrong with the bottle of liqueur in my possession.

Yours in cocktails,

stephen clover.

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