Choklat is the only company in Canada that makes all of our chocolate in house. Spending an evening with one of our hosts means you'll see things no other chocolatier in the country can show you.
These events are great for team building, client appreciation, kicking off a bachelorette or birthday party, or even just assembling group of friends or family for an evening to experience something out of the ordinary.
Just as the wine industry treats grapes differently, and the coffee industry treats coffee beans differently, so do we treat cocoa beans when making chocolate. Does that make us Chocolate Snobs? Hardly. We just call it "Snobbery" for fun. What we do however gives us a significant "quality" advantage over large manufacturers and the multitude of chocolatiers who purchase and resell their massed produced products.
The evening begins with you sipping a real drinking chocolate while your host walks you through a brief history of cocoa and the entire process of how cocoa beans are cultivated and prepared for chocolate making. From there, you'll begin a journey of transforming those amazing little seeds into chocolate. Experience chocolate making first hand while you see, touch, taste, smell everything chocolate related – the good, the bad, and the ugly! At the same time your host will cover such topics as "percentage" as it relates to dark chocolate, Fair Trade in the chocolate industry, and other topics which commonly mislead the general public. Our hope is that you'll walk away from this experience not only full of chocolate, but also a much better informed consumer!
Your host will then guide you through a chocolate “tasting” where you will be introduced to a number of different dark and milk chocolates, all made right here at Choklat. It’s here that you’ll learn what Europeans have known for years - that dark chocolate isn’t just “dark chocolate”. You will even have the opportunity to try and compare a commonly accepted “premium” chocolate!
The evening is then capped with a fun chocolate and wine pairing. Four different beverages (a red wine, a port, a sherry, and a dessert wine) are paired with some of our chocolate. Here, you'll see how in some cases wine and chocolate pair well, while in other cases they don't.
