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 …
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.
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.
On 26th March, the BBC’s Panorama series ran an exposé of bulk cacao farming in West Africa – the source of the cocoa used in most ‘chocolate’ confectionery. Did the programme go after the right targets though, and was it wholly accurate?
Seventypercent’s editor foolishly takes on an ‘F1 chocolate bar challenge ‘ from Duffy Sheardown, owner of new English chocolate Red Star Chocolate. Follow our race calls and progress here.
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.
This month’s hot topics include a round up of new US micro-batch producers and ‘has Green & Black’s 70% got better?’
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 …