Awaken Your Senses offers various workshops and tastings designed specifically to bring people back in touch with their basic senses:
>>Cooking with Wine and Chocolate
Using a selection of recipes and hands on exercises, learn the basics of how to cook with chocolate and wine to create unique desserts that will be sure to impress friends and family. In this workshop you will:
• Learn about where chocolate originated
• Different chocolate varietals and descriptors
• The different types of chocolate that you can use in cooking
• The basics of tasting chocolate and learning how to select the appropriate chocolate for your recipe.
• Learn how to combine both wine and chocolate in desserts
• Create two decadent chocolate and wine desserts
Participants will take home with them:
• Recipe booklet including chocolate resources
• 2 chocolate and wine desserts
• Chocolate chart
At the end of the workshop participants can relax and enjoy a glass of red wine and a decadent chocolate dessert.
Duration: 2.5 hours
>>Introduction to Chocolate and Wine Tasting
Join us for a gourmet evening of chocolate and wine tasting, indulging your senses in the delicate and sensuous aromas and flavours waiting to be discovered…
In this introductory presentation, each participant will be introduced to four unique pairings, and learn the basics of how to pair wine with chocolate. Topics discussed include:
• History of chocolate
• Different varietals of chocolates and their properties
• Growing and processing methods and how these affect the final chocolate product
• How to match different types of chocolate with different varietals of wine
Duration: 1.5 hours
>>The Art of Chocolate Tasting
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