Guided Chocolate Experiences

Chocolate,the universalsolvent.

Curated educational tastings—from focused four-chocolate explorations to collaborative pairings with coffee, beer, and wine.

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Fine chocolates paired with red wine, amber beer, and black coffee
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Four Ways to Taste

One ingredient.
Four perspectives.

Cacao & Cup

Explore the relationship between cacao origin, roast, fermentation, and the nuanced character of specialty coffee.

Cacao & Craft

Pair fine chocolate with thoughtfully selected beer styles while exploring malt, fermentation, bitterness, and aroma.

Cacao & Vine

Discover how fruit, tannin, acidity, fermentation, and origin connect fine chocolate with carefully chosen wines.

Cacao & Cocoa

A focused four-sample tasting exploring cacao history, origin, craft production, and flavor—no beverage pairing required.

Educational + Sensory + Social

What your guests
can expect.

  1. 01Cacao history
  2. 02Industrial vs craft
  3. 03Farm-to-bar production
  4. 04Sensory exploration
  5. 05Guided chocolate tasting
  6. 06Venue-specific experience
An educator arranging fine chocolate beside coffee, beer, and wine tasting glasses

Guests taste chocolate with intention.

Learning how cacao origin, fermentation, roasting, texture, aroma, and processing shape what ultimately reaches the palate.

How It Works

Designed with your venue,
not around it.

Each event is developed as a collaboration, shaped around your audience, venue, and chosen tasting format.

01

Consult

We discuss your venue, products, audience, event format, and goals.

02

Develop

We shape the tasting and select four fine chocolates, with beverage collaboration where applicable.

03

Source

Azoth sources the fine chocolate selected specifically for your event.

04

Host

Azoth leads the guided experience while your venue supports the agreed service format.

About Azoth Chocolate

Chocolate is worth
paying attention to.

Azoth creates approachable, educational tasting experiences centered on fine chocolate and the people, places, and processes behind it.

Each experience is designed with the host venue, exploring chocolate independently or in conversation with coffee, beer, or wine through flavor, fermentation, origin, and craft.

Led by Joel Johnson

Wisconsin native formerly based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Joel brings a maker's perspective to approachable tasting experiences that connect craft, origin, and sensory education

IICCT Level 2Internationally Certified Chocolate Taster
7+ YearsProfessional chocolate experience
25+Internationally award-winning chocolates crafted
500,000+Chocolate bars tempered & poured

Bring Azoth to Your Venue

Give your guests something
worth talking about.

Let’s develop a chocolate tasting experience built around your audience, space, and service format.

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