Level 3 Certificate in Chocolate Tasting
The Level 3 Advanced level course in Chocolate Tasting builds on the Level 1 Foundation and Level 2 Intermediary courses and develops a deeper understanding of chocolate tasting and profiling through advanced sensorial work, following the flavour journey from cacao farming through to chocolate making.
The Advanced course will help you develop an in-depth understanding of the influence of cacao production and chocolate making on the flavour of finished origin chocolate bars, and will include field visits to either cacao farms or chocolate factories and where possible, to both.
The course includes five days of training and tasting, with additional travel time for field trips where required.
- Classroom introduction and reference tasting of Level 3 study chocolate
- Field trip to cacao or chocolate regions, or both combined
- Advanced sensorial work, tasting and profiling
- Relating cacao tasting to chocolate flavour
- Cacao production techniques and their effect on flavour
- Cacao varieties, recovery projects, latest research
- Chocolate production styles of the makers we meet
- Cacao or chocolate history and development in the region
- Group project focusing on the chocolate marketing, branding and origin story
- Visit to at least one chocolate factory
- Networking with fellow students during the trip
Level 2 students wishing to develop their understanding of chocolate taste to a new and cutting edge level and to obtain an advanced grounding in the world of fine chocolate and cacao.