The Tasting Tutor

22/04/2024

Join us for a delightful evening 🍫🍷

Join us in the beautiful Sunroom at Parkwood on May 22 at 7:00 p.m for our Chocolate & Wine Tasting, in partnership with The Tasting Tutor. 🍫

Indulge in an enchanting chocolate experience! With over two decades of expertise in the chocolate industry across Canada and Europe, Oliver, a trained Sommelier, invites you on a delectable journey. You don’t want to miss this!

✅ Uncover the secrets of cacao beans
✅ Dive into the rich history of chocolate
✅ Perfect the art of tasting
✅ Indulge in two wines & 8 chocolate varieties

Plus, depart with a complimentary bottle of wine to continue the sensory adventure at home! 🍷

To purchase your tickets and for more information on this event, please visit our website.

22/09/2023

It really is chocolate! Made with just 3 ingredients; cocoa butter, milk and sugar, this delicious treat qualifies as white chocolate 😋

15/05/2023

Before baking chocolate chip cookies you have to decide what you prefer. 🍪
Not all chocolate is created the equal and the type you use will determine the outcome. 🧐
It’s all in the ratio of cocoa butter to cocoa solids. ⚖️
Chocolate chips have a lower ratio of cocoa butter which is why they maintain their shape and even their pointy peaks after being baked into the cookie. 🔥
If you like melted gooey chocolate in your cookies then opt for using chopped up chocolate bars since they have a higher cocoa butter ratio and are designed to melt. 🍫
Just another fun fact about chocolate 😀

03/05/2023

In just two weeks I’ll be at the historic sharing my love of wine & chocolate with guests in their stunning sunroom.
Together we’ll taste our way through 8 chocolates and a couple wines all while having fun and learning a few things along the way.
Tickets are available through Parkwood and the link in my bio.

14/04/2023

Just spent a great evening with a group of people who wanted to discover some delicious wines at a great value and have a fun in the process.
And we did have fun!
Thanks to the Escarpment Probus Club of Milton for inviting me to present.

01/03/2023

Love Chocolate? Love Wine? Then join us for a delightful evening at the historic Parkwood Estate National Historic Site where you'll get to learn about and taste both chocolate and wine together.😍

10/02/2023

Pre-Valentine virtual chocolate presentation tonight. 💘
To clarify, I’ll be virtual but the chocolate is real! 🍫🤭
It was delivered to participants last week so they can enjoy the entertainment and tasting at home with their Valentine 💝

31/01/2023

Do you prefer to eat your chocolate or drink it? 😋

Or both😆

19/10/2022

Just remember the adage, ‘don’t bake with a chocolate you wouldn’t enjoy eating on its own’. The quality of the chocolate comes through in the taste of baked good.

06/09/2022

I think this is great! A drink made from the pulp of the cacao fruit which is normally discarded in the chocolate making process.

If you’ve taken one of my chocolate tasting experiences you’ll recall me explaining all the parts of the cacao pod and it’s role in making delicious chocolate.

The waste reduction and therefore sustainability of this drink is admirable. And it tastes great!

Too bad it isn’t available in Canada yet… I had to buy this in the US.

04/08/2022

Nothing to worry about here…. Snaccidents happen 😳🍫

28/07/2022

This is SO deceiving!!

Did you know you can’t make a milk chocolate bar by simply pouring liquid milk into melted chocolate?

The water in the milk doesn’t blend with the cocoa butter in the chocolate.

Daniel Peter and Henri Nestle figured that out in 1876 when they created the world’s first milk chocolate bar 🍫

Happy National Milk Chocolate Day 😋