Cella's Milk Chocolate Covered Cherries – Premium Cherry Cordial Candies – Individually Wrapped with Display Box - Peanut Free, Gluten Free – 72 Count, 2.25 Pounds (Pack of 1)

I just got mine from Nite Tide sales, fulfilled by amazon, and mine, as of my jan 5 2015 purchase, has a sell by date of 10/2016, so they are pretty fresh. I have tried a lot of different version of the chocolate covered cherries. Some, like the queen ann brand, are very cheap, and for a good reason. They do not have very good quality. they have cheap chocolate, and the centers, or the cream between the cherry and the chocolate, is very very sweet. That is one thing I like about the Cella's brand. They are sweet (hey, they are a chocolate covered cherry.. they are all sweet), but they are not overly sweet, like most of the cheap brands that I have tried. The cella's brand ones have a creamy, liquid type of center, that has a little sweetness to it, but has more of a rich, or creamy flavor, and is not overly sweet. They are very well balanced in flavor, with one thing not overpowering the flavor of the other ingredients.. The flavor blends together very well. Mine arrived in good condition, and was not dried out like I have seen a lot of other people say theirs were. The only thing I can think of is the people who got the dried out ones, maybe they saw them at a very cheap price and jumped on it because of how cheap they were, and they were probably cheap because of being old stock, near their sell by date. I have seen the same things happen with other candies. You see a really low price, and jump on the deal because of the price, just to find it was a very good deal so they can get rid of the stock before it reaches the sell by date and they cant sell it. better to make less of a profit, or no profit, then to not be able to sell the merchandise and loose money.. I got some hershey's candy bars from amazon a while back just like that. so if you see an extremely low price, I would say write to the vender and ask how old the stock is just to make sure, before you buy. I have seen others say that they received a lot of leaking ones. My guess is, these come in trays of multiple cherries per section. Basically, they have a tray for each level, and each tray has sections that hold 6 cherries per section. They are not individually protected like the smaller boxes of them are. So if your mail gets smacked, or knocked around a lot, then you probably are going to have some damaged ones. It is not the manufacturers fault, but more of the fault of the people handling the package. another person said that they got this larger box then what they are used to, so they were going to put them in the freezer.. Let me just say this.. Chocolate and freezers do not always get along well. and besides, these, at least the ones I got, have over a year and a half sell by date.. Why would you need to put them in the freezer?? just keep them in a cool area and you will be fine.. Im sure that the box of them will be gone in well under a year.. Just so you know, the large boxes, where you see 72 in a package, they are all individually wrapped. unless you get the small, or regular sized boxes of this brand, they are all individually wrapped. The regular sized boxes are the only ones that do not have the individually wrapped CCC's. and those are in those plastic tray's to keep them separated and protected. As for these. I really have no complaints, and can not say anything bad about these. If anything, the only thing bad I could say is that I wish that they were a bit cheaper. Other then that, no complaints here. some things to note. If you prefer dark chocolate, dont forget, these come in both milk, and dark chocolate. and if you are like me, these things are addictive.. Some candies you eat a couple and say, hey, I have had enough.. these are not like that.. These are more like that turkey sitting on the dining room table after dinned on thanksgiving. Set them there, and you keep grabbing them not thinking, so if you are like that. Make sure not to open the box next to you.. Open it and take a few out and then go sit down as not to demolish the full box of them in one sitting..

So Delicious and fresh. Lots of liquid and quality cherry. Love these!

Arrived early! These were carefully packaged and arrived in perfect condition several days earlier than expected. We WILL order from this seller again!

Saw this product and rejoiced, thinking back to the days when we would buy a couple of them on the way home from school. The silky chocolate, the slurping of the liquid center, the soft and flavorful cherry floating within. Unfortunately, I was spared all that today. The shipping box was pristine, the inner box was untouched, no trace of liquids inside the cellophane wrapper. Opened it up to an amazingly powerful cherry smell. So amazingly powerful, I got worried, but there was no liquid residue in the top tray. Took out each tray and the cardboard between and everything looked perfect. It's winter - no need to worry about getting shipped under a baking sun. When I went to unwrap one from the top layer, the bottom was mushy/soft. After pulling back the foil, I saw that the entire bottom was caved-in, like someone had sucked out the center and the bottom had imploded. The chocolate was somewhat whitened as well, which doesn't mean it's necessarily "bad" but rather that it had melted and heated up to the point where some of the sugars separated out and crystallized on the surface. I put that cherry aside, pulled a random one from the middle layer. Same thing. And same for the bottom layer. Well, since there was no liquid to be found in the box, I figured there had to be something left, so I tried one of the cherries anyway. It was not quite like beef jerky made of cherries, but it was dry as a bone and of a horrible texture. What flavor survived was awful, but thankfully not very powerful. The best thing about this box of Cella's cherries was the aroma of cherries when I opened the cellophane wrapper. I thought I'd escape the "melted cherry syndrome" that others described by purchasing it in the colder months, and I quietly cheered when I saw the shipping box was unblemished, but my confidence level in The Candy Company (merchant) quality is quite low and there's no way I'm spending money to see if it happens twice in a row. I should have listened to the other reviewers.

Fresh and tasty, great seller

Arrived slightly crushed but were still delicious.

NICE TASTE

Perfect, liquid syrup with the cherry center! Delicious!!