Graeter's - Black Cherry Chocolate Chip

Black Cherry Chocolate Chip - Black Cherry Ice Cream with Black Cherries and Chocolate Chips

We return to Graeter's for another member of their Signature Chip collection.  This time, it is Black Cherry Chocolate Chip.  Frequent readers will know that Graeter's is the brand which uses the french pot process and a unique way of creating large soft chocolate chunks in their pints.  A couple of videos in a previous review demonstrate how this is done.  I really like these chips, so it is almost guaranteed to be a good pint already, but it is always interesting to see what else is in the pint.  Here it is black cherries -- or sweet dark cherries as they write in some of the descriptions.  This should be interesting.

Opening the lid shows the purply pink color color of the black cherry base with a couple of large cherry pieces visible right away.  The first spoonful was quite tasty.  It is a different cherry than Cherry Garcia.  Like black cherry soda, the flavor is simultaneously more sweet and more sour than a regular cherry.  It is a little more sweet when you bit into it and there is a bit of a sour aftertaste.  I actually like flavor better, but that is a personal preference.  The cherry pieces are distributed generously throughout the pint and are also quite good.  As usual, the famous chocolate chips do not disappoint.  If you've watched the videos and/or are familiar with these chips, you'll know that there is some variability in chip size.  In this pint, I ran into a chip that was too large to fit on my spoon!  I had to shovel it up to the rim of the pint and bite off a piece first.  That was fun.  The chunks are soft and even a bit chewy so that didn't seem weird.

This was another successful Graeter's pint.  The chips are always good, but I really liked the base and the cherry pieces here as well.  If you'd like a black cherry version of Cherry Garcia with the famous Graeter's chips, then don't hesitate to give this a try.