TASTERPLACE - 12 Chocolate Aroma Kit

TASTERPLACE is a supplier of aroma kits for Sommelier Associations.

Train your sense of smell and your wine tasting skills. You will rapidly learn to recognise the aromas most frequently found in high quality wines. This is a must-have tasting tool for both amateurs who are approaching the world of tasting and for expert tasters who want to refine their sense of smell. These aromas are widely used by sommeliers and professionals in their training courses.

The Chocolate Aromas collection contains a publication and 12 aroma samples to smell.

The publication provides the important information to understand where Chocolate comes from, its characteristics, how to taste it, what aromas can be found in a quality product and how to train your nose to recognize them. For example, a high-quality Chocolate may have notes of white flowers, others of tobacco, but these aromas are difficult to identify for an inexperienced nose.

The 12 aroma samples help you train your sense of smell while having fun. Try smelling the samples in a blind smell test and measure the progress of your sense of smell. Once you have memorized a particular aroma, it will be much easier to identify it, in its delicate forms, in a Chocolate you taste.

Smell samples include 12 aromas frequently found in high-quality chocolate:

1. Fresh cream
2. Caramel
3. Honey
4. Banana
5. White flowers (acacia)
6. Citrus
7. Red berries (blackcurrant)
8. Nuts (roasted hazelnut)
9. Allspice
10. Green leaves
11. Earthy notes
12. Tobacco

Why choose TasterPlace

At TasterPlace we offer a new tasting experience to help you get to know the food and drink products you love the most.

Tasting is about training your senses, tasting and comparing different products to each other to identify the unique differences that set them apart, often in a subtle but noticeable way. Tasting can be intimidating at first, but it's something everyone can successfully accomplish with a little guidance and some practice. At TasterPlace we incorporate real-life tasting tools and the information you need to know into a convenient and affordable product, and deliver it to your home for you to enjoy alone, with your family, or with your friends.

We begin this journey into the world of tasting by examining olfactory aromas, because our nose is the most important tool we have when it comes to tasting. In fact, smell is the first characteristic we perceive when we bring food to our mouth, and subsequently, the aromas that develop in the mouth and are perceived through the retronasal sense of smell, contribute to producing what we call the flavor of a product.

About Tasterplace

Years ago, when we first approached the world of tasting as amateurs, we were a little bewildered: when a sommelier or instructor commented on the numerous aromas of a wine (e.g. those of rose, pepper, licorice or wood), we felt uncomfortable trying to distinguish them ourselves in a product and could therefore only declare whether or not we liked the bouquet or the overall taste of the product. During a tasting of extra virgin olive oil, while we appreciated the pleasant smell of “olive oil,” we could not perceive particular details such as artichoke or yellow apple. These difficulties were significant in the absence of specific skills.

Three years later, TasterPlace was created to help people develop these skills in an easy and fun way. We provide tools to make tasting easier and more accessible by training the sense of smell. Olfactory training is a new way to learn about your subtle preferences and ultimately helps decide how to successfully pair food and drink. Discover our AROMAS collections from TasterPlace.