We’ve already signed up quite a few community members and chocolate fans to tell us all about their experiences during Chocolate Week – the highs, the lows, the endurance challenge with all that chocolate, the delightful, the surprises and the triumphs of fine chocolate in the UK. It looks like …
We’re looking for volunteers to blog on Seventypercent.com about their experiences during Chocolate Week and to report on events in their local area. Get in touch with us now if you’re interested.
We’re adding an extra date to our growing country chocolate season with Melt Chocolates in a one-off Chocolate Week special, where we’ll be featuring one of the most promising of the new growing country makers, Pacari from Ecuador.
Announcing our new partnership with The Elmfield, a family boutique hotel on North Devon’s unspoilt coast.
Situated in what’s becoming a stylish foodie retreat, The Elmfield offers a true gourmet experience to its guests and is the perfect choice for our very first first Origin Chocolate Destination.
The first of a series of joint tastings with Seventypercent.com and Melt Chocolates, featuring special guest Mott Green of the Grenada Chocolate Company. Includes talks by Martin Christy and Mott Green, tasting of bars and truffles, complimentary glass of wine and take away goody bag.
A new season of joint monthly tastings celebrating fine chocolate made in cacao growing countries, in partnership with London chocolatier, Melt Chocolates.
Each month we’ll explore a new chocolate maker or country, with a talk, samples, specially made chocolates, glass of wine and guest speakers, in the fashionable surroundings of Melt’s Notting Hill shop.
Melt and Seventypercent.com present a tasting event to celebrate the cacao of Ecuador. Lourdes Delgado will tell us about plantations, the problems of farmers, cacao from the Amazon, her own chocolate brand and her hand-made jewellery. Sit back and enjoy with some fine chocolates and a glass of wine.
Tues 24 Mar 2009 – Our regular monthly tasting event in our partner venue, the London member rooms of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. With an introduction to fine chocolate as well as sampling of our new finds and recent discoveries.
Tues 21 Apr 2009 – Our regular monthly tasting event in our partner venue, the London member rooms of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. With an introduction to fine chocolate as well as sampling of our new finds and recent discoveries.
Tues 26 May 2009 – Our regular monthly tasting event in our partner venue, the London member rooms of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. With an introduction to fine chocolate as well as sampling of our new finds and recent discoveries.
Tues 23 Jun 2009 – Our regular monthly tasting event in our partner venue, the London member rooms of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. With an introduction to fine chocolate as well as sampling of our new finds and recent discoveries.
£50 per person, 6.30pm-8.30pm, Friday 17 October 2008The Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NP Finishing the week off with a bang, Martin Christy and Seventypercent.com will host an evening of tasting, talks and demos with the talented Mr Curley – UK Chocolatier of the year for the second …
Populist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was in the village of Chuao recently, presenting his weekly TV and radio talk show ‘Aló Presidente’. Chavez’s comments were mostly about Venezuela’s response to the world food crisis, as reported at venezuelanalysis.com. Chavez also talked about the problems of commercial trawling and its effects …
Our regular monthly tasting event in our Charing Cross, London venue. With an introduction to fine chocolate and sampling of the latest chocolate bars featured in our monthly Connoisseurs Club.
UK viewers can catch a Seventypercent tasting tonight on Channel 4′s docu-drama series Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory.