£10 TICKET IS REDEEMABLE ON PURCHASE AT THE EVENT*

March 29th 7pm

83 Thomas More House

Barbican London EC2Y 8BU

Join Raffaella Baruzzo for a tasting event in Central London and discover more about chocolate and about your ability to use your senses of smell and taste. 

During the tasting, Raffaella engages and guides the audience through the chocolates they are sampling, answers to questions and helps understanding. While her style is light, fun, and enjoyable, her knowledge of chocolate is impressive and covers everything, from chemistry to plants, recipes and industry trends.

A tasting session lasts around an hour and a half, during which Raffaella explains and guides the audience, tells stories and illustrates the secrets of cocoa.

The guests are given samples of different chocolates, from bitter and intense to buttery and sweet. The selection of samples is designed to favour their understanding and it ranges from cheap commercial chocolate to pure and beautifully harmonious cocoa.

During the Tasting you will be able to sample: 

2 different 70% cocoa covertures, 2 different 100% cocoa covertures, 2 examples of acidity, 2 examples of tannin, 2 examples of sweetness, 3 pralines, and a glass of prosecco to finish off the evening.

Raffaella encourages discussions and opinions and helps the audience to actively compare the samples, guess the aromas, and understand the more subtle differences and notes. The group is showed the peculiarity of a preparation, a recipe, a particular cocoa type or a way to process it.

For Raffaella, educating about chocolate is a delicate process of stimulating the natural skills in each person. The mind, the nose, and the palate have to work together to fully learn and appreciate superior chocolate. A tasting session enhances and empowers these sensorial skills and, most importantly, makes the person more aware of them.

Raffaella Baruzzo has a long experience with chocolate preparations and knows the different aspects of chocolate making in depth. She spent years researching cocoa and she lived and worked on cocoa plantations in Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela. She achieved a first-hand understanding of how the plants and the beans transform into different qualities, and how the full process works, from a seed to a beautifully packaged creation.

She has worked for years in chocolate retail and presented countless tastings. She is also a Chocolatier herself, has worked in a kitchen for many years, and still does it today. Every preparation from Baruzzo Chocolate comes out of her extensive research, her “behind the scenes” knowledge of the chocolate industry, and her deep insight on chocolate itself.

For more than a decade Raffaella has worked in the vibrant UK chocolate industry, presenting her particular point of view on chocolate. Her business vision inherits much from Italian fashion and design. Every Baruzzo Chocolate Collection is inspired by traditional Italian desserts and is created after extensive research to balance Italian elegance with cocoa's natural characteristics.

Why a Chocolate Tasting?

Because during a tasting with Raffaella everyone in the room is involved in experiencing and understanding the reasons behind a particular recipe or preparation.

Chocolate is a well know and a very popular food, but a deeper understanding of it still remains limited to a small number of people.

The most interesting way to learn and understand the subtle essence of chocolate comes from direct experience, memorable information, essential insights and interesting stories.

Redeem you £10 Ticket on £50 of purchase

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