Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Tasting
*Chocolate Tasting Workshops coming soon in May 2025*
Experience a tasting journey through eight distinctive single-origin chocolate bars, featuring a special creation made from cacao beans sourced in Pingtung, Taiwan. Crafted in collaboration with our friends at Kasama Chocolate on Granville Island, BC. Explore a range of the flavour notes – from fudgy to fruity – that may be found in chocolate made with well-fermented cacao beans.
You will be guided on a journey, from cacao bean origin, stories of the makers, to the sounds, texture, and taste of the bar. Expand and refine your palate as you learn techniques and vocabulary to identify tasting notes in chocolate.
Ready to experience and explore the world’s craft chocolate?
You will learn:
- How chocolate is made and how flavour is developed
- The ingredients used in craft chocolate
- How to taste chocolate, explore the flavour and aroma
- The importance of ethically sourced and direct trade cacao
The tasting session includes:
- A how-to taste guide, tasting sheet, IICCT chocolate and cacao flavour profile map
- A flight of eight distinctive origin chocolate bars, featuring a special collaboration Kasama Chocolate x YI SHI Cacao chocolate bar made with Taiwan cacao and other distinctive origins
- Sampling roasted cacao beans and hot cacao tea
Your Host:
Olivia – a Level 2 Certified Chocolate Taster from the International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting, and has recently completed a Tree-to-bar certificate course at a cacao origin in Taiwan. She loves sharing the joy of craft chocolate and the stories behind it to inspire your own chocolate adventures.
Refund policy:
Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable