{"title":"Alfort Chocolate Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eBourbon's chocolate-biscuit range since 1994: a moulded slab of chocolate sitting on top of the biscuit, not wrapped around it, a sailing ship pressed into its face. Mini boxes, full-size bags and souvenir editions. The whole shelf: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-biscuits\"\u003eJapanese Biscuits\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate","title":"Bourbon Alfort Mini Chocolate — Milk Chocolate on Wholemeal Biscuit, 12 Pieces (55g)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilk chocolate on a crisp, lightly salted wholemeal biscuit, twelve little pieces in a blue box. It's sweet, but the salt keeps it from tipping into sugary, and the closest thing you'll already know is a chocolate digestive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've not come across it before: in Japan this is an everyday supermarket chocolate, not a gift or a special-occasion one. It's properly popular: the big share-bag version was the single best-selling confectionery in the whole country for four months running in 2025, and it's mostly adults in their thirties and forties buying it. That's the range, not this box. Office drawers rather than lunchboxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eアルフォート, the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Milk chocolate over a wholemeal biscuit. Pay attention to the biscuit rather than the chocolate: it's lightly salted, and that's the bit Australians don't see coming.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: The biscuit snaps; the chocolate is soft at room temperature and firm when chilled. Getting that balance right is the whole trick, and there's a name for it in Japan, the golden ratio.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow much you'll eat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Twelve pieces sounds like several sittings. \"I'll just have a couple\" is famous last words with these: there's no resealable wrapper, because the box isn't built for one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft. That's normal for this chocolate, and it's a cosmetic problem rather than a taste one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. The same factory lines also run egg products. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you see 59 g on another Australian listing, that's the old pack. Bourbon dropped it to 55 g in early 2025 and left the barcode unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTake one box if you're trying it for the first time; more if you already know you like it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48155408204002,"sku":"SH-SNK-0001","price":6.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate-blue-box_897259a4-37e3-4ecd-8906-28600fcd8745.webp?v=1789258319"},{"product_id":"bourbon-mt-fuji-alfort","title":"Bourbon Mt Fuji Alfort — Milk Chocolate on Wholemeal Biscuit, 14 Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilk chocolate on a crisp, lightly salted wholemeal biscuit, with a snow-capped Mount Fuji moulded into the top of every piece and the snow picked out in white chocolate. It tastes like an Alfort, because it is one, sweet chocolate against a wheaty, faintly salty biscuit, and the closest thing you already know is a chocolate digestive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Bourbon's souvenir edition rather than the everyday box. Alfort itself is one of Japan's biggest sellers, the 147 g share bag was the country's best-selling confectionery item for four months running to October 2025, but that is the supermarket bag; this fourteen-piece box is made for the souvenir counter rather than the snack aisle, which is why it isn't one you'd come across in a Japanese supermarket either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e富士山アルフォート, the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw over there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Milk chocolate over a wholemeal biscuit. Pay attention to the biscuit rather than the chocolate: it's lightly salted, and that's the part Australians don't see coming.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAll fourteen\u003c\/strong\u003e: Every piece carries the mountain, and the snow on the peak is white chocolate. The ordinary Alfort has no white chocolate on it at all.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWrapped one by one\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fourteen separate wrappers, each printed with the same mountain in metallic blue. In Japan this is a box you carry back to the office and hand round, and the wrapping is what makes that work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe pieces are bigger\u003c\/strong\u003e: Each one is about twice the weight of an Alfort Mini, so this is a fair bit more chocolate than the little blue box even before you count the extra two.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft. It tastes the same once it firms up, but the moulded peak is the first thing to go, and on this box the peak is rather the point.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've not met Alfort before: the chocolate is a slab set on top of the biscuit rather than a coating wrapped around it, which is why the moulding comes out so sharp. Does it taste different from a normal Alfort? Opinion is genuinely split, so the only difference we can state plainly is the one you can see: the white chocolate on the peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things worth knowing if you're comparing listings elsewhere. It is not a limited edition, whatever you may read. It's a standing regional line that goes through the souvenir channel rather than the supermarket. And descriptions of \"two designs, twelve mountains and four sailing ships\" belong to the older sixteen-piece box, which Bourbon no longer lists; this one is fourteen, all mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two other Alforts you're most likely to have met are different products again. \u003cstrong\u003eAlfort Mini\u003c\/strong\u003e is the little blue box of twelve small pieces: we sell that one too. The \u003cstrong\u003eregular Alfort\u003c\/strong\u003e is the full-size biscuit, sold in boxes of nine and in share bags. Both of those carry Bourbon's sailing ship stamped into the chocolate; of the three, only this box has the mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244647100642,"sku":"SH-SNK-0008","price":19.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/bourbon-mt-fuji-alfort-box-front.webp?v=1787298845"},{"product_id":"bourbon-alfort-chocolate-biscuits","title":"Bourbon Alfort — Milk Chocolate on Salted Wholemeal Biscuit, 9 Full-Size Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilk chocolate set on a salted wholemeal biscuit: sweet, but there is real salt in the base, and it is the salt rather than the chocolate that people remember. Nine full-size pieces, each individually wrapped. The closest thing you already know is a chocolate digestive, though the biscuit is coarser and crumbles more crisply than that suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've only met Alfort as the little blue box, this is the other one, and it isn't just bigger. Bourbon's own ingredient panels put wheat flour first here and sugar first on the Mini, and this recipe carries roughly twice the salt per gram in pieces more than twice the size. Alfort is a genuine staple in Japan: the big share bag was the country's best-selling confectionery item for five months running to November 2025. That's the range, not this bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eアルフォート, the name on the bag, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Milk chocolate over a wholemeal biscuit, and it's the biscuit that surprises people. This is the properly salted recipe, and the salt is what stops nine of them tasting like nine chocolates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: A coarse, short biscuit that crumbles crisply, under a slab of chocolate thicker than you'd expect for the size of the piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow many you get\u003c\/strong\u003e: Nine, individually wrapped. It used to be ten: Bourbon cut the count in October 2024, and this pack is that change. The biscuit itself didn't shrink. Bourbon cut the count, not the piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft. The bag's own storage line is 28 °C, and an Australian summer beats that indoors. It's a cosmetic problem rather than a taste one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things people get wrong before they buy. The chocolate is a moulded slab pressed onto the top of the biscuit, not a coating wrapped around it. And this is not the mini box, nine pieces at about 10 g each, not twelve at four and a half.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne bag is nine pieces: a few afternoons, or one afternoon if you're not careful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261574131938,"sku":"SH-SNK-0014","price":6.58,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/bourbon-alfort-9-pieces-blue-bag.webp?v=1787885653"},{"product_id":"bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate-vanilla-white","title":"Bourbon Alfort Mini Chocolate Vanilla White — 55g","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite chocolate with real vanilla seed, set on a dark, bittersweet cocoa biscuit, twelve pieces to a box. White chocolate usually means sweeter; this one isn't, because the biscuit underneath isn't sweet, it's slightly bitter, and it pulls the whole thing back. If you already know the blue Alfort, this is not that recipe with a paler topping on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eアルフォート ミニチョコレート バニラホワイト, the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Vanilla-bean white chocolate over a cocoa biscuit. The vanilla is real seed rather than flavouring alone, and you can see it as fine dark specks in the white slab.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is the surprise\u003c\/strong\u003e: This is where it stops being the blue box with white chocolate on it. The base here is a wholemeal \u003cem\u003ecocoa\u003c\/em\u003e biscuit, dark, toasty and not sweet, where the original Alfort Mini sits on a plain wholemeal one. Pale on dark, the reverse of the usual arrangement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexture\u003c\/strong\u003e: The biscuit snaps hard. The white chocolate softens in the warmth and firms up again out of the fridge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow much you'll eat\u003c\/strong\u003e: It's rich: two or three is a serving, and it isn't a box you clear in one sitting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft, and white chocolate shows it more than milk chocolate does. Pale streaks or a chalky bloom on the surface afterwards are cocoa butter separating out, cosmetic, harmless, and not mould.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlfort itself is a staple in Japan: the 147 g share bag was the country's best-selling confectionery for four months running to October 2025. That's the range, not this white-chocolate box. Three other white Alforts are in circulation: a winter Mini, a salted-vanilla one, and a 136 g bag carrying this same flavour name, so if you're matching a pack you saw, check it reads ミニチョコレート and バニラホワイト. Unlike those, this one is a standing line in Japan rather than a seasonal release. It's the same twelve pieces in the same 55 g box as the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you already know the blue box, this is the one to try next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269718880482,"sku":"SH-SNK-0021","price":6.16,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate-vanilla-white-box.webp?v=1787979602"},{"product_id":"bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate-strawberry","title":"Bourbon Alfort Mini Chocolate Strawberry — 55g","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrawberry chocolate on a toasty wholemeal biscuit, twelve pieces to a box. It's sweet-tart. There's real strawberry powder worked through the chocolate and an acidity that cuts it, and the biscuit underneath is lightly salted. If the plain Alfort was a bit much for you, this is the one that fixes it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eアルフォート ミニチョコレート ストロベリー, the name on the box, if you're matching it to something you saw in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaste\u003c\/strong\u003e: Sweet-tart strawberry over a toasty wholemeal biscuit. There are visible grains of strawberry powder through the pink chocolate and you can feel them as you eat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit is the tell\u003c\/strong\u003e: this one keeps the plain toasty wholemeal base, the same as the blue original, and that's what lets the strawberry stand out rather than compete. It's lightly salted too, which is the bit that stops a pink biscuit tasting like a children's one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWorth knowing\u003c\/strong\u003e: The pink coating is made without cocoa mass, where the plain Alfort's chocolate has it. It's a real difference in what you're eating rather than a colour change, and it is why this one tastes lighter on the chocolate side.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOpinions split on the strawberry\u003c\/strong\u003e: some people taste fruit and some taste flavouring, and the ingredients list has both: strawberry powder, flavouring, and something added to make it tart (an acidulant). Worth knowing which camp you're likely in before you commit to twelve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIn summer\u003c\/strong\u003e: It will arrive soft. That's normal for this chocolate, and it's a cosmetic problem rather than a taste one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: Contains milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlfort itself is a staple in Japan: the 147 g share bag was the country's best-selling confectionery for four months running to October 2025. That's the range, not this strawberry box. Bourbon has put out several strawberry Alforts: a raspberry-and-strawberry one, a winter melt-in-the-mouth one, and a Kyushu souvenir box, so the barcode is the reliable way to match a pack you saw. This one is a standing year-round line rather than a seasonal release, whatever the listings calling it a limited edition say. It's the same twelve pieces in the same 55 g box as the original; if you see 73 g on another Australian listing, that figure is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne box is twelve pieces, enough to find out whether the strawberry is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bourbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269719732450,"sku":"SH-SNK-0022","price":6.16,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/bourbon-alfort-mini-chocolate-strawberry-box.webp?v=1787980549"}],"url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/collections\/alfort.oembed","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}