Chocolate Tasting Miami by Marcela Portela

• Taste Bogotá’s finest cacao—bean to bar and hot chocolate.

Master Chocolatier
Book Full Journey
Recommended
  • Both sessions
  • on line
$150.00$135.00
Be the first to join this live tasting in Miami!

What you will experience

Session 1 — From Bean to Bar (1.5h)

A guided journey from the cacao bean to the finished bar to learn how to recognize real chocolate.

  • What real chocolate is (and is not): ingredients and sensory cues.
  • Bean-to-bar process: fermentation, drying, roasting, grinding, refining and tempering.
  • Chocolate types: dark, milk and white — composition and flavor differences.
  • Health benefits of real chocolate.

Session 2 — Drinking Chocolate & Tradition (1h)

A tasting of ancestral, traditional and contemporary cacao drinks — memory, nourishment and continuous reinvention.

  • We’ll explore ancestral, traditional and contemporary preparations of cacao beverages.
  • We’ll discuss the role of cacao and chocolate in Colombia.
  • Special focus on Bogotá’s drinking-chocolate tradition.