These tasting notes are mainly as an aide memoir for me, as I can never remember which brands that I like, or perhaps more importantly do not like. Over time I am hoping to build up a substantial database on my ingredients page.
Image from the Collective Dairy
The Collective Dairy is a New Zealand brand that is due to launch in UK supermarkets in June 2011. Made in the UK, using West country milk and other British ingredients (where possible), the yoghurt is made under licence to the Collective Dairy New Zealand.
The yoghurt is thick, creamy, nicely flavoured – with balanced sour and sweet notes, is probiotic and is sweetened with honey, not sugar.
These yoghurt comes in clear plastic tubs, with two generous layers of “topping”. These really are puddings, a gourmet luxury treat, rather than a healthy snack.
I tried the Russian fudge (I am not sure what is especially Russian about it) and it was delicious, fudgy, packed with flavour and not too sweet with none of the artificial flavour notes that can be present in similar puddings. Perfect for an after supper treat.
Luscious lemon is a perfect summer treat, with thick layers of lemon curd either side of the yoghurt – again delicious, zingy and not too sweet.
I was less keen on the apple crumble, which was still good, but I did not love it as much as the other two, and great on muesli for breakfast.
Also available is passionfruit flavour.
Available in 500g sharing pots with a RRP of £2.39 in Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Ocado from June 2011. A snack sized 165g pot RRP £1 will be launched in August 2011.
Both pots and lids are marked as recyclable with a plastic identification code.
A product I will be buying in the future.
Thanks to The Collective for my samples.
We’ve only tried the Passion Fruit and Apple versions, but we can’t wait to try the others as they are delicious. My family would definitely recommend them.