Starting at $22
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DESCRIPTION
Gather your favorite craft bean-to-bar chocolates, or connect with me beforehand and I'll help you find quality, ethically sourced chocolates to try. Together, we'll go on a journey deep into the world of cacao.
Through storytelling and tasting, we'll explore cacao's history, science, health benefits, spirituality, and the process of turning cacao into chocolate. We'll weave together a tapestry that's both beautiful and dark, sweet and bitter, just like chocolate itself.
We'll also discover how different origins, fermentation, and roasting styles shape chocolate's flavor, using a tasting map to guide our palates.
This experience will change the way you look at cacao and deepen your relationship with the "food of the gods," while discovering what the real value of cacao is all about.
TICKET / ADMISSION / REGISTRATION
Online chocolate tasting experience lasting approximately 1-2 hours. Chocolate is not included. Bring your own quality, ethically sourced craft bean-to-bar chocolates. Justin will connect with you beforehand to help you find chocolates to purchase locally and provide a chocolate tasting flavor profile map. Price is $22 per person, with sliding-scale options available depending on group size or family pricing. Contact Justin to discuss pricing if needed.
VENUE INFORMATION
Join me virtually from Ometepe Island in Nicaragua, a one-of-a-kind place where two volcanoes meet in the middle of Central America's largest lake. Surrounded by fresh spring water and lush jungle, there truly is no other place like Ometepe. I'll bring the world of cacao right to your home through an interactive chocolate tasting hosted live on Zoom. All the delicious discoveries, without any of the jungle bugs!
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Skill Level
Beginner: Seekers with little to no knowledge or experience.
Activity Level
Light
Seekers should be comfortable with low-intensity activities like sitting, standing, or walking throughout the experience. Activities may include easy hikes, walking tours, cooking classes, and so forth.
Cancellation Policy
Full refund up to 7 days before the start time of the Experience or within 24 hours of booking when booked more than 48 hours before the Experience starts.
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Hey, I'm Justin Waxman!
Hey all! My name is Justin and for the last 9.5 years I've been working as chocolate maker, cacao grower, and interactive tour guide. As a cacao specialist, educator, and researcher with extensive hands-on experience in specialty cacao production, post-harvest processing, agroforestry, and craft tree-to-bar chocolate making, my passion is to blend cacao tourism, and commun...
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Hey, I'm
Justin Waxman!
Hey all! My name is Justin and for the last 9.5 years I've been working as chocolate maker, cacao grower, and interactive tour guide. As a cacao specialist, educator, and researcher with extensive hands-on experience in specialty cacao production, post-harvest processing, agroforestry, and craft tree-to-bar chocolate making, my passion is to blend cacao tourism, and communicating the cultural, agricultural, scientific, spiritual, and practical dimensions of cacao to local and international audiences both in person at my Centro de Ancestral on Ometepe Island with my Nicaraguan partner, Luisa, a...
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