+ History Tasting

$69 (16 Piece)

~ 75 minutes

Guests are required to have hot water to prepare sample drinks.

This tasting will take your guests through over 5000 years of known chocolate history. Think chocolate started with the Aztecs? Think again. This tasting will focus on how the use of cacao and chocolate evolved over thousands of years, and where it is headed today. Samples will reflect this.

A great tasting for those fascinated by history and want to understand how cacao and chocolate has evolved throughout the ages. This tasting will require guests to prepare a couple drinks with hot water.

Kit Includes: Chocolate and cacao samples, informative handout, flavour wheel keepsake, simple preparation instructions, virtual session info., and optional add-ons (such as full bars, hot chocolate pack, hazelnut chocolate spread, and more).

Virtual Session: Hosted by Geoseph. Interactive, fun, educational, and includes music, images/videos, and time for questions.

+ Relaxation Tasting

$69 (12 Piece)

includes 2 non-food samples

~ 60-75 minutes

Guests are required to have hot water to prepare sample drinks and other samples.

We will combine chocolate with relaxation. How? Through a slow-moving relaxing guided session where we will focus on aroma, flavour, body soothing, and relaxing music. A great way for your guests to unwind, take a break, and focus on self-care.

Guests will learn about aspects of chocolate and cocoa that can help sooth and relax the body both physically and mentally. We will consume and use chocolate and cacao to bring these ideas to life.

This tasting will be slow-moving, calm, and quiet with lots of focus on our thoughts and on the music. There will be time for interacting and sharing, but the aim is for each guest to relax and calm their mind.

Kit Includes: Chocolate and cacao samples, drink samples, cocoa butter, essential oils, mini candle, informative handout, flavour wheel keepsake, simple preparation instructions, virtual session info., and optional add-ons (such as full bars, hot chocolate pack, hazelnut chocolate spread, and more).

Virtual Session: Hosted by Geoseph. Interactive, fun, educational, and includes music, images/videos, and time for questions.

+ Process Tasting

$69 (16 piece)

~ 75 minutes

Most people have no idea where chocolate comes from and how it is made. What influences the flavour of your chocolate? Terroir? Think again. This tasting will scratch the itch of curiosity for those who love to learn about where their food comes from. We will try samples of cacao and chocolate in various forms and stages.

Other aspects we will cover in addition to the process of chocolate are costs associated with fine chocolate, ethics in the cacao and chocolate industry, and an overall deeper appreciation for small-scale craft chocolate makers.

Kit Includes: Chocolate and cacao samples, informative handout, simple preparation instructions, virtual session info., informative handout, and optional add-ons (such as chocolate/cacao products and tasting tools).

Virtual Session: Hosted by Geoseph. Interactive, fun, educational, and includes music, images/videos, and time for questions.

+ Tea & Chocolate Pairing

$79 (14 Peice)

Including 2 teas

~ 1 hour

In my opinion, there is no better companion to fine chocolate than fine tea. This tasting we will enjoy a range of fine chocolate along with two fine looseleaf teas (such as white, green, oolong, pu-erh, fermented, black). These teas are unflavoured, which means the beautiful aromas come from the tea leaves themselves not from other ingredients or extracts added.

The goal of this tasting is to enjoy the chocolates and how they interact with the teas. We will also discuss the underappreciated nuances of unflavoured chocolate and tea and how profound the flavours themselves can be due to processing.

Kit Includes: 6 types of fine chocolate in duplicate (12 samples total), two fine teas (let me know when you book if you have a preference), informative handout, simple preparation instructions, virtual session info. Guests are required to have hot water to prepare tea.

Virtual Session: Hosted by Geoseph. Interactive, fun, educational, and includes music, images/videos, and time for questions.

If you have preference of teas, feel free to let me know in the notes section when you book.

+ chocolarcuterie

$79 (16 Piece Set)

includes 6 chocolates in duplicate and 4 non-chocolate food samples

~ 75-90 minutes

Includes dried meat and cheese, but can be subsituted for vegan options.

Fine chocolate is the perfect addition to a charcuterie board. Believe it or not, chocolate was used in savoury dishes far before it becaame synonymous with desserts.

This session will take your guests on a unique culinary exploration of flavours, textures, and unsual pairings and foods. We will explore not only the samples of fine chocolate, but how they interact with beef jerkey, freezedried cheese, and dried fruits and/or vegetables and nuts depending on any preferences.

Kit Includes: 12 samples of fine chocolate (6 types in duplicate), beef jerkey, freezedried cheese, and freezedried fruits/vegetables/nuts depending on preferences. Also included is tasting handout, flavour wheel keepsake, simple preparation instructions, virtual session info., and optional add-ons (such as full bars, hot chocolate pack, hazelnut chocolate spread, etc.).

Virtual Session: Hosted by Geoseph. Interactive, fun, educational, and includes music, images/videos, and time for questions.

$16 each

+ Hazelnut Chocolate Spread

This is essentially gourmet Nutella, and as good as it gets. Made in Montreal by Allo Simonne. It is made with real hazelnuts, fine chocolate, jaguar nuts (cocoa bean's cousin!), and is dairy-free and vegan. A lovely inclusion and takeaway for your guests.

$4

+ Cacao Fruite Puree

Incorporated

This will be incorporated into the tasting, and is a great way for people to experience the tast of the fruit of the cacao!

Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao, but the seeds are covered by a sweet tart fruit. It tates nothing like chocolate. A fun addition while we explore what chocolate is all about.

Learn more about this cacao fruit puree here.