- 1 day
- Sat 3 May 2025
- 10:00am - 6:00pm
- Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
- €185
The Chocolate Note Recognition module will help you name and identify flavor notes in chocolate, through sensory training and practice using natural aromas, taste samples and origin chocolate with these flavor notes.
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Natural aroma samples and unique Italian aroma extracts set
The course will start with an intensive aroma development session, designed to open the olfactory senses and stimulate your flavor awareness level, ready for identifying flavor notes in chocolate.
This special Bangkok edition will feature unique natural aromas from Bizzarri Apothecary, Florence, Italy, made using traditional craft techniques, giving an intense aroma experience.
Practice aroma and taste identification and recognition in origin chocolate
In the second part of the course, we will taste origin chocolate with different distinct flavor notes and compare these with aroma and taste samples. While tasting is subjective and each person will taste differently, we can identify related flavors that identify the most common notes in each chocolate, referring to the IICCT flavor profiling system.
Chocolate Flavor Note Recognition
Unlike some of our other senses, where recognition can come very easily, like naming a colour, aroma is much more connected with emotion and our memories. This makes it much harder to easily name what we’re tasting, even for advanced tasters.
We have probably all had the experience of trying a chocolate (or wine, or coffee) and recognising a flavor note but not being able to put a name to it, or sometimes there’s a note that’s just completely new to us or we only taste it in chocolate. Improving your ability to recognize and name flavor notes comes through practice and frequent chocolate tasting.
This development module provides a structured space for flavor note recognition, with tutored smelling and tasting or aroma and flavor samples and tasting of origin chocolate samples containing the notes.
This module is supplemental to our Chocolate Tasting program and will form part of the learning development that will be used for our more advanced level programs.
- Sensory sessions to expand your personal flavor note library
- Smell and taste aromas and flavors found in craft chocolate
- Tasting dark chocolate and identify typical flavor notes for the origin
- Build your confidence for finding and naming flavor notes in chocolate
- Anyone wanting to improve their flavor recognition skills
- Chocolate Tasters who want tutored tasting practice
- Chocolate makers aiming to better understand the flavor of their chocolate – great for understanding recipes
- Sensory experts and professionals seeking to widen their knowledge