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The Chocolate Journey – taste workshop – 18 Sept 2010

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The Chocolate Journey is our new series of tasting events bringing a whole new approach to the art of chocolate appreciation.

Our day course will awaken your chocolate senses and give you a whole new approach to chocolate.

Book now for £60 with our ‘early bookers’ offer.

Amano Chuao

The Chuao cacao cave (also known at the production office)

The bloggers and twitterati have been buzzing recently, fuelled by Amano’s ‘guess the origin’ competition. A new Amano origin chocolate bar is interesting news enough, but rumours and guesses about a rather famous source have had connoisseur’s hearts racing for the last few weeks.

Amano new origin competition – win a year’s supply of chocolate!

2 Jun 2010 by The Pod No Comments
Amano mystery beans

Amano announce competition to guess the origin of their latest origin chocolate.

Enter while you can and be Amano’d up for a whole year.

Tuscan chocolate taster

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A visit to Florence to discuss the upcoming ChocoAndino event in Colombia with Monica Meschini had been on the cards for a while.

Icelandic ash had been getting in the way, but finally last week I managed to make a short trip, with no danger of getting stuck in Italy. (Shame!) Two days of fast and furious chocolate visits and tasting followed.

Rabot Estate opens in Borough Market

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Today saw the launch of UK premium chocolate chain Hotel Chocolat’s new high end chocolate shop, Rabot Estate. I managed to pop down for the 11am opening, try some new St Lucia chocolate and suffer from some sneaky rum in my cocoa tea!

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New website

30 Sep 2009

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Welcome to our new website, which is finally here, albeit in a not totally finished format. Hopefully you’ll agree it’s a huge improvement and will bear with us while we …

The Chocolate Journey – taste workshop – 23 Oct 2010

1 Jul 2010

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The Chocolate Journey is our new series of tasting events bringing a whole new approach to the art of chocolate appreciation.

Our day course will awaken your chocolate senses and give you a whole new approach to chocolate.

Book now for £60 with our ‘early bookers’ offer.

First Connoisseurs Club tasting

27 Apr 2010

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Last week saw the first of our new ‘Connoisseurs Club’ get togethers at our regular monthly tasting venue, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

Our new advanced format was a chance to let our hair down a little and pull the new, odd and unusual out of the chocolate cupboard.