Xylish Platinum Mint Chardonnay flavour is a special gum released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Meiji candy company. The first impression I had when chewing it was of champagne, fruity and sparkling (though it doesn’t have any ingredients that would give it a fizzy feeling), which did somehow make me feel more celebratory, even sitting at my desk at 10:22 AM on a Thursday. Sadly, the wine flavour lasts less than a minute, transforming first into a plain grape fruitiness and quickly becoming blah. It does somehow leave you with wine-drinker’s breath, but I like to think that drinker is more Sophisticated Wine Taster, not Cackling Wino.