THE TASTING EXPERIENCE

You can eat chocolate…

Bite and chew it right away, enjoy the crunchiness, and miss more than 70% of the aromas –and be deprived of the full pleasure!

… Or you can savor it.

We’re talking about gourmet chocolate here: not a lot of chocolates are designed for being savored, alas. Take your time and you will discover a truly unexpected world of aromas. And change your relationship with chocolate forever. Promise.

1. SMELL

Approximately 80–90% of what we perceive as “taste” is in fact due to our sense of smell, interesting eh?
So “prepare” your palate by smelling the chocolate. Just like perfume, chocolate has top notes and bottom notes, light ones and heavy ones. The lightest ones are the first to leave when you breathe and can go unnoticed if you are not concentrating. The same goes for heavier notes, which you can identify at the end of your breath.

When you do our Discovery Box tasting and go through the six different origins, you will discover six different aromas, the first indicator that terroir is everything for pure and natural ingredients.

2. BREAK

Break a piece of chocolate, small enough to fit under your tongue. If you hear a snap when you break it, it means the chocolate was well tempered

3. LET IT MELT, DON’T CHEW!

The most difficult part of the tasting. Put the piece of chocolate under/on top of  your tongue and let it melt. Wait…
Give time to the chocolate to warm up and release its aromas. Let it melt. Wait, wait…
Feel your palate flooded with amazing and unexpected notes, enjoy…

4. RECOGNIZE

Now put a name on flavors. Sometimes you recognize the taste, but can’t always name it.
Start by defining the aromatic domain: flowers? fruits? roasted? spicy? Taste is personal, it’s the sum of your culture, your habits, your experience and how your brain connects names to sensations.    

5. ENJOY

The most important phase of the chocolate tasting.
Take another bite now that your palate has been introduced to this chocolate and discover even more pleasure, perhaps some extra flavors you didn’t notice at first.

6. REPEAT

Practice is key. Please let us know if we have created another monster!