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 catch up with all the technical tweaking needed to deliver the site we want, and we hope you’ll find easier to use and more appealing.
Chocolate Week is with us again, with events around the UK and the UK’s first fine chocolate exhibition – Chocolate Unwrapped.
Find out all about Seventypercent’s events during the week and follow our bloggers coverage of their Chocolate Week adventures.
A new series of events that bring an innovative approach to the art of chocolate tasting.
With games and taste experiments these courses will awaken your chocolate senses and set you on your way to becoming a chocolate connoisseur.
A new series of events that bring an innovative approach to the art of chocolate tasting.
With games and taste experiments these courses will awaken your chocolate senses and set you on your way to becoming a chocolate connoisseur.
Our new series of fine chocolate appreciation sessions for more advanced chocolate enthusiasts. Meet fellow enthusiasts, reviewers and guests as we sample new and interesting chocolate, production samples or bring your own for a group review.
In a specially arranged last minute event, Art Pollard of Amano will be our featured guest at our February tasting. Come along and find out all about this Award winning new US chocolate maker. Free Amano origin bar with every ticket.
John Sharffenberger is paying one of his rare visits to London so this is a unique opportunity to meet this renowned chocolate maker and learn about his travels around the cocoa growing world working with farmers to improve their stocks, their environments and their livelihoods.
Warm up the winter chill with The Chocolate Festival at the Southbank Centre, London, 11-13 Dec 2009. Join Seventypercent.com on Sat 12th for our talk and take our ‘Taste test’ in the Royal Festival Hall
Our new online Amazon bookstore gives you quick and easy access to the best fine chocolate books available.
Update your reading list now, or find the ideal chocoholic gift.
Could Pierre Hermé, leading light of the new wave of Parisian patissiers be coming to London? We’ve heard hints for a while of the up-market pastry and chocolatier chain extending it’s current presence in Paris, New York and Tokyo to London, but the lastest rumour has it that we could be treated to more than [...]
Clay Gorden will be giving us an overview of the US chocolate scene and introduce some of the new breed of American chocolate makers – some already known in the UK, and some very new.
Weds 14 Oct 2009 – An additional date for this popular tasting. We’ll be matching fine chocolate with various spirits produced in cacao growing countries.
As part of Seventypercent’s Chocolate Week programme, the London member rooms of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society will be opening their doors to non-members for daily sampling of matching fine chocolate and Society whiskies.
And if you sign up for Society membership while you’re there, you’ll receive four fine chocolate bars to go with your introductory whiskies.
The last big upgrade of WordPress we applied to the site broke the old links plugin we were using, so the links section has been broken for awhile.
We now have a much better version installed, so you can now view our very extensive links collection here.
Thanks go to Per Liss (Masur) for all his hard [...]
Those of you blessed with a fully standards compliant browser like FireFox, or an up to date one like Safari, will be seeing lovely rounded corners in our new site design. The majority of you using Internet Explorer, will be seeing the site all stern and square, and missing out on our whole lozengey feel.
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