Get ready for a chocolate tasting adventure! For the first time ever at Maxima Hive, you can join a curated craft chocolate tasting guided by a real life chocolate sommelier! Learn tips and tricks on how to taste chocolate like a professional, methods for enhancing your understanding and enjoyment of chocolate, and how to read chocolate labels with true insight into what makes craft chocolate different than the industrial chocolate most folks are used. Come hungry! Come inquisitive! Come excited for chocolate!
About Victoria Kichuk
A chocolate sommelier for over 15 years, Victoria Kichuk brings a truly unique blend of engaging storytelling abilities with an accessible approach to food education that ushers audiences toward a new appreciation of chocolate while learning about its greater historical, geographical, scientific, or cultural context. Career highlights include traveling to origin and visiting cacao farms in Colombia, Peru, and Hawaii, presenting at festivals like the New England Chocolate Festival, the WGBH Wine & Food Fest, the DC Chocolate Festival, and the Northwest Chocolate Festival. You’ve likely also heard her talk about chocolate during multiple appearances on Boston Public Radio with Jim & Margery.
About Cocoa Beantown company:
Founded in 2013 as a blog and relaunched as an experience provider business in 2017, Cocoa Beantown, a Boston-based chocolate education and events company, spreads the love of chocolate through a variety of cocoa-centric neighborhood walking tours, tasting and pairing events, picnics, socials, classes, trivia nights, and educational lectures, to folks from around the Hub and beyond, bringing smiles to the faces of chocoholics from 19 months to 100 years old.
