August Birth Chocolate
Birth Chocolate
Blonde Chocolate
Blonde chocolate was accidentally discovered in 2012 by the French luxury chocolate manufacturer Valrhona and introduced to the world as the 'fourth chocolate.' By slowly heating white chocolate at low temperatures for 10 hours, the milk and sugar caramelize, creating a beautiful blonde color and distinctive toasted flavor. Its taste is described as complex, deep sweetness like caramel biscuits with a subtle saltiness - an adult flavor that mysteriously combines nostalgia with freshness. Perfect for August, when summer memories shine golden and the transition to autumn begins, it deeply resonates with the cultural background of welcoming ancestors during Obon. The beautiful color created through the slow transformation process symbolizes how memories become more valuable over time, like reminiscences that are beautified in memory through the passage of time.
Features
- Unique production method caramelizing white chocolate over 10 hours
- Beautiful blonde color (golden-brown) appearance
- Complex, toasted flavor reminiscent of caramel biscuits
- Adult taste with subtle saltiness within the sweetness
- Unique richness and depth created through time-intensive production
- Fourth chocolate commercialized earlier than ruby chocolate
Personality
- Bridge-like personality that gently connects past and present, evoking nostalgia and novelty simultaneously
- Patient and persistent, maturing slowly and steadily over time
- Intellectual charm combining surface beauty with inner depth and complexity
- Adult generosity understanding life's joys and sorrows, hiding saltiness within sweetness
- Well-balanced personality that values tradition while not fearing innovation
- Charm that increases in value over time, like memories beautified in recollection
Symbolic Meaning
- Symbol of golden memories and recollections beautified through time
- Intergenerational bonds and inheritance of wisdom passed down from ancestors
- Beauty and transience of changing seasons at summer's twilight
- Value built over time and crystallization of effort
- Bridge connecting past and present, harmony of tradition and innovation
- Mature heart knowing life's sweetness and bitterness, deep human understanding
Reason for Selection
- Appropriate for expressing time-honored values and intergenerational bonds during Obon when ancestors are welcomed
- Blonde color's beauty perfectly harmonizes with the season when summer memories shine golden in August
- Time-intensive change through caramelization symbolizes life's maturation process
- Golden color like Koshien sand expresses crystallization of youth memories and effort
- Expresses complex emotions at summer's end through exquisite balance of sweetness and saltiness
- Innovation as the fourth chocolate resonates with August-born flexibility in accepting new values
Protection & Effects
- Power to engrave precious memories unfadingly in the heart, protecting the treasury of memory
- Harmonious protection that deepens intergenerational understanding and strengthens family bonds
- Enhances adaptability to life changes and eases fear of new environments
- Insight to transform past experiences into wisdom and power to give hope for the future
- Enhanced judgment to maintain balance between traditional values and modern thinking
- Acquiring persistence to build human relationships that deepen over time
Trials & Growth
- Challenge to keep looking toward present and future without falling into excessive nostalgia
- Overcoming impatience for short-term success while being required to achieve long-term results
- Acquiring wisdom to understand complex relationships and situations, making appropriate judgments
- Establishing personal values while balancing tradition and innovation
- Path to maturity by accepting both sweetness and bitterness, understanding life's wholeness
- Improving insight to see through the essence of things without being misled by surface beauty