Gourmet tastings & pairings 2009

Gourmet tastings & pairings for groups: 2009

Food & Wine Tours specializes in organizing Corporate and Special Events; Incentive Trips and Product Launches in Spain with a gastronomic touch.

THE BASICS: We propose locations; we manage singular spaces that combine art,

beauty and history. Unique and elegant places to celebrate business meetings.

Itinerary planning, transportation, accommodation and on-the-ground support

OUR ADDED VALUE is the possibility to combine these business activities with our experiences created around Food & Wine.

Team building & training, Indoor activities, tours, trips & cultural activities, restaurants & nightlife.

These experiences allow the opportunity of discover, share, and appreciate the diverse tastes of our unique country.

If you are a lover of good food and wine and are planning on doing a creative and fun experience, then our activities have been designed for you.

We can tailor made all of them to your specific needs.

Creativity is one of our milestones.

Our offer is addressed companies, tour operators and travel agents but also to all those entities seeking for high quality food and wine experiences.

Our services can meet all your needs, from the expertise of our professionals to create a unique activity; to the design, creation and coordination of the event that you consider it fulfils the agreed upon objectives.

We have classified our experiences by the level of activity •

Team building / competitions

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Develop organizational skills Give and take direction effectively Work toward common goals Build confidence and morale Adapt to changing environments Sharpen communication skills Dare to be creative Have fun

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Activities & Experiences

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Incentive tourism: winery visits …

From gourmet tours to cookery courses, take a break with a gastronomic twist, tailored to your needs!

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Tastings

Gourmet Tastings ................................................................................ 4 Wine Tastings ...................................................................................... 5 Aromas & Wine Tasting........................................................................ 6 Chocolate Tasting .............................................................................. 7 Cheese Tasting ................................................................................... 8 Ham Tasting ........................................................................................ 9 Foie Gras Tasting ............................................................................... 10 Beer Tasting ...................................................................................... 11 Brandy Tasting .................................................................................. 12 Olive Oil Tasting ................................................................................ 13 Food & Wine pairing meals ............................................................... 14 Cheese & wine pairing ...................................................................... 15 Chocolate & sweet wine pairing ....................................................... 16

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Foie Gras & Wine Pairing ................................................................... 17 A trip to Cheese ................................................................................ 18 A trip to Chocolate ........................................................................... 19 A trip to Olive oil ............................................................................... 20 A trip to all your Senses ...................................................................... 21 The world of chocolate ..................................................................... 22 Clients .............................................................................................. 23

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Gourmet Tastings Experience with us new sensations of the palate and delights to the senses.

It's about sharing the experience of wine and food among friends. It's about learning to appreciate the finer things in life in a friendly environment.

Tasting, an activity that surprises by its innovation.

The activity begins by making a sensorial taste to educate and to prepare the tongue and the senses. We will go through all the stages and shades of flavours and tastes. Sweet, bitter, salty, spicy,… all of them thru a variety of produce, aromatic plants, fruits,..

A trip thru the tasting world.

Each tasting is a single activity, which you can combine with other tastings.

Tastings: • • • • • • • • • •

Wine Tastings: traditional (vertical, horizontal), surprising (cava versus champagne), specials Chocolate Tasting Cheese Tasting Iberico Ham Tasting Foie-grass tasting Beer tasting Olive oil Tasting Cheese and Wine pairing Chocolates and Sweet Wine pairing Foie grass and wine pairing

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Tasting experiences •

A trip to cheese

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A trip to chocolate

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A trip to olive oil

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A trip to all your Senses

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Wine Tastings [Grapes are] the most noble and challenging of fruits.

Malcolm Dunn, Head Gardener to the 7th Viscount Powerscourt, c 1867

Eyeballing wine, swirling and sniffing and swishing ... it may look complicated but you will see that it is not. Nevertheless, wine tasting is an art that must be learnt, following a strict process in the search for aromas and flavours; a training that can be turned into a great time!

Wine culture forms part of the Spanish gastronomy. Our wines are a real richness, which doesn't leave indifferent the most demanding palates.

We have made a rigorous selection of sommeliers, in order to guarantee the best services in the wine tasting training.

Thanks to them, you will be able to discover the most used tasting techniques, and make use of your talents as an amateur sommelier!

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2-4 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Swedish and Japanese.

The activity includes:

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An expert sommelier who will lead the visit and the tasting Tasting of 5 wines of your choice: whites, reds, cavas or combined All local taxes

The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes • A waiter for more than 20 people (1 waiter every 20 people) Observations: • If this activity is done in a Winery a Complete guided visit to the cellar is included • Optional gourmet meal.

• Optional Private transfer to the venue

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Aromas & Wine Tasting Educate your nose!

How often have you been tasting a glass of wine and you think “I know what that aroma is” but you just can not put a name to it, even though it's on the tip of your tongue..... literally.

This is a wine workshop to develop a fine nose, essential for a wine tasting.

As an aid to novice wine tasters - and experts too - wine scientists came up years ago with something called the "aroma wheel."

You do not need a wheel to do a good tasting, however: The information is just as useful in the form of a list, starting at noon and moving around the clock from "fruity" through "nutty" and "earthy" around to "floral," "spicy" and back to fruity again.

You will have to guess, a collection of scents related to wines from a wine aromas set.

By the end of the workshop you will be able to pair aromas with different wines, and you will know the difference between After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 3 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request

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Languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Swedish The activity includes: Sommelier Aromas Workshop Tasting of 4 wines (2 whites, 2 reds). aromas guide, aromas set,…

All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes Observations: If this activity is done in a Winery a Complete guided visit to the cellar is included Optional gourmet meal.

Optional Private transfer to the venue

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Chocolate Tasting "Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso." (Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick.) Spanish proverb

Chocolate tasting skills will allow you to truly savour gourmet chocolate. And learning to taste fine chocolate and appreciate its distinctive personalities is a pleasure.

The first impression is very important when it comes to chocolate tasting. Therefore, you should first pay attention to the chocolate's appearance - colour, and even structure and sheen..

True chocolate lovers taste chocolate like a fine wine or a select cigar. Equally, a special vocabulary is also used to describe chocolate. We invite you to find out more about the many and varied sense impressions.

Give it a try, it’s really After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2-4 hours

Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: The services of our exclusive chocolate specialist All the necessary material for the tasting: o Chocolates with different % of cocoa o Chocolates from different parts of the world o Chocolate bonbons with different flavours o Tasting guide All local taxes

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The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes Observations: It can be combined with a trip to Chocolate and with Wine pairing If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar Optional private transfer to the venue

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Cheese Tasting Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

Cuban proverb

Creamy, sharp, woody, mild...the choices are endless. And just like a fine wine or a good beer, Cheese should be appreciated. And there is no better way to experience cheese in its purest form than to hold a tasting.

In the tasting you will learn a few things to keep in mind... temperature, ...

Enjoy a delicious selection of cheeses from Spain, In the tasting, we discuss the characteristics of the flavour, the aromas, the texture, the colour and its aspect.

Spain has about 100 different varieties of Cheese.

Every region has its own specialty, covering a full range of cheese types, from fresh to cured, to fermented and blue-veined. One essential characteristic is the type of milk used in the production. Depending on the area, time of the year, climate, or tradition, cheeses are made of cows', sheep's, goats' milk, or of a mixture of two or all three types of milk.

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2-4 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

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The activity includes: o The services of our exclusive cheese specialist o All the necessary material for the tasting: Tasting guide 4 to 7 different types of cheeses o All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes Observations: • It can be combined with a trip to Cheese and with a Wine pairing • If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar • Optional private transfer to the venue

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Ham Tasting Ham is one of Spain’s enduring gastronomic essentials.

This flavourful and versatile dry-cured ham is making its way to tables around the world.

From France to Japan, from the Netherlands to Mexico or the United States, consumers in over seventy countries worldwide have come to appreciate its fine taste and texture, its health-promoting qualities, its variety in culinary uses, its excellent shelf-life, its affordability, and particularly the fact that Serrano ham is the product of a natural process.

During the tasting with which you will be able to experience the different qualities and textures from Spanish Ham and their different flavours according to the origin, raising and feeding of the pigs.

All the Ham to be tasted is Iberian and Iberian of acorn and with denomination of origin. The processing of this ham is strictly bound to the natural seasons. As a consequence, Iberico ham is a high end product and amounts to only about 10% of total dry-cured ham production in Spain.

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: • The services of our exclusive Ham specialist • Tasting course • Ham tasting material: Tasting guide, ..

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All local taxes

The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes Observations: • It can be combined with Wine pairing • If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar • Optional private transfer to the venue

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Foie Gras Tasting Heaven is eating Foie Gras to the sound of trumpets

Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

Hmm so what does foie grass taste like? Plain foie grass is very rich, sort of creamy in texture. If it's seared, the texture is much softer almost melt in your mouth..

Delicious!!

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain. Special location in a foie grass farm in Girona (north of Barcelona) Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: • The services of our exclusive Foie grass specialist • Tasting course • Foie grass tasting material: Tasting guide, ..

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All local taxes

The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

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Observations: • It can be combined with Wine pairing.

• If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar • Optional private transfer to the venue

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Beer Tasting Beer is a drink of enormous agricultural and commercial significance. Every drop of the millions of gallons made annually has one final objective-to be consumed. In passing the lips, crossing the tongue and descending the throat, beer is tasted whether or not a conscious comment of judgement is made.

During this activity you will learn the history of beer, how to taste it, how to serve it, the different types of beers in the world,…

This experience will vary depending on the knowledge, tastes and wishes of the group. Types of beers we can taste from different parts of the world: • Ales • Lagers • Lambic beers: spontaneous fermentation • Pale and dark beer After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain. Special location in a Beer factory in Barcelona Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2-4 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: • The services of our exclusive beer specialist • Tasting course • Beer tasting material: Tasting guide, ..

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All local taxes

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The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes Observations: • It can be combined with Cheese pairing and a visit to a beer factory.

• If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar • Optional private transfer to the venue

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Brandy Tasting Brandy is distilled wine - wine with most of the water removed - which changes the taste and makes the alcohol content higher. Brandy has been an extremely popular drink for hundreds of years in Spain and is most often enjoyed as an after-dinner drink.

Brandy is unique. It's the only drink made from another alcoholic beverage, namely wine.

During this special tasting you will learn the secrets of the Brandy, exploring its aromatic and tasting resemblances with some daily products.

Taste of 4 or 5 brandies After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain. Special location in a brandy factory near Barcelona Participants: Groups from 8 to 30 people Duration: 2-4 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: • The services of our exclusive brandy specialist • Tasting course • Tasting material: Tasting guide, ..

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All local taxes

The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

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Observations: • It can be combined with a brandy factory visit.

• If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar • Optional private transfer to the venue

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Olive Oil Tasting Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

Pleasures of the Table, George Ellwanger (1848-1906)

As an amazing approach for the novice, Olive Oil tasting astonishes guests every time. Olive Oil is the faithful reflect of its native tang, and reveals pervasive aromas which is its typical and exclusive signature.

Learn what Olive Oil is, what are its origins, its extraction method and its designations. Discover how to taste it without forgetting that Olive Oil combined with wine tannins was recently acknowledged as a positive factor for health.

The tasting session includes the following steps: • Visual analysis • Olfactory analysis • Gustative analysis • Tactile analysis • Balance – Harmony After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain. Special locations in several olive oil factories.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2-4 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

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The activity includes: The services of our exclusive Olive oil specialist Tasting course and all the necessary Olive oil for the tasting Olive oil tasting guide All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes Observations: It can be combined with other tastings.

If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar Optional private transfer to the venue

Tel.: +34/93-317 19 09, mail: info@foodwinetours.com www.foodwinetours.com www.ociovital.com

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Food & Wine pairing meals Pairing foods with wines is very much like discovering wonderful new recipes. Just as the right combination of ingredients complements and highlights each other to create a gourmet dish, pairing the right wine with a meal creates a combination that celebrates and enhances the experience of both food and wine.

Pairing the perfect wine to meals can be challenging for hosts and hostesses. But with a basic understanding of combinations and some creativity of your own, it is actually hard to do it wrong.

The joining of wine and gastronomy should be a unique experience, taking us to a sensorial world in which we can discover, thanks to our senses, the ample range of sensations offered by the combination of wine and food.

We all know that the white wine combines with fish and red with meat but, can be we go further? Come to one of our gastronomic experiences and find out!

Our expert sommelier will teach you the basics of the food, the wine and how the components and flavours in each interact can make it easy to find a successful pairing on a daily basis, and can greatly increase the chances of finding an exciting synergy between wine and food.

You will learn to use all your senses whilst enjoying the food. You will assimilate how to unite, harmonize and correctly complement food and drink, the dishes and the wine.

An exclusive experience!

Program

Food & wine pairing workshop by our specialist sommelier.

Combination of wine and food with our specialist sommelier or our invited chef.

Locations: All over Spain Participants: Groups from 8 people Duration: 5 hours Availability: Tuesdays to Sundays.

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Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: Food & wine pairing workshop Meal with wines.

Transfer Hotel / Winery / Hotel. Bus with driver and a wine specialist guide.

Complimentary bottle of wine.

All local taxes

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Cheese & wine pairing Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

Cuban proverb

Cheese and wine have a great deal in common, and they have been enjoyed together since ancient times. Both are products of fermentation. Both may be consumed while fresh, simple, and young or in their more complex forms when they are aged and mature.

The possibilities of pairing cheese and wine are endless.

Spain has about 100 different varieties of Cheese. Every region has its own specialty, covering a full range of cheese types, from fresh to cured, to fermented and blue-veined. One essential characteristic is the type of milk used in the production. Depending on the area, time of the year, climate, or tradition, cheeses are made of cows', sheep's, goats' milk, or of a mixture of two or all three types of milk.

In the tasting, we discuss the characteristics of the flavour, the aromas, the texture, the colour and its aspect.

This activity allows you to discover cheese with all your senses, while enriching your knowledge about its matching possibilities with drinks and other food.

Program Cheese & wine Tasting: 3 to 6 different cheeses perfectly matched with 3 to 6 different wines After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

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Locations: all over Spain. Special location in a cheese factory Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2-4 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: The services of our exclusive Cheese and wine specialist Tasting course and all the necessary material for the tasting All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

Tel.: +34/93-317 19 09, mail: info@foodwinetours.com www.foodwinetours.com www.ociovital.com

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Chocolate & sweet wine pairing The perfect harmony Some say it can’t be done, pairing wine with chocolate, but if you have the right wine to complement the right chocolate it can be a match made in heaven!

Whether you are pairing a delicate white chocolate or a lively dark chocolate with wine, there are a few pairing tips to keep in mind.

Learn them in this unique experience.

Chocolate tasting with 3 different traditional sweet wines: - Ranci wine: aged in oak for more than 8 years - Moscatel wine - Mistela wine After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain. Special location in wineries Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2-4 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: The services of our exclusive specialist Tasting course and all the necessary material for the tasting All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

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Observations: It can be combined with other tastings.

If this activity is done in a Winery, there is an Optional Complete guided visit to the cellar Optional private transfer to the venue

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Foie Gras & Wine Pairing Heaven is eating Foie Gras to the sound of trumpets Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

The Foie and wines pairing activity is complemented with and introduction to the world of Duck, followed by a detail explanation of each one of the produce that are being tasted.

These exclusive products are tasted along wines or cavas that heighten their flavours and qualities.

Delicious!!

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain. Special location in a foie grass farm in Girona (north of Barcelona) Participants: Groups from 8 to 60 people Duration: 2 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request Languages: languages.

English and Spanish. Consult other

The activity includes: The services of our exclusive Foie grass specialist Tasting course Foie grass tasting material: Tasting guide, ..

All local taxes

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The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

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A trip to Cheese Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

Fadiman, Cliff

A cheese tasting follows the same rationale as a wine tasting. Start with the mildest cheese and progress to the strongest. For an almost spur-of-the-moment party that requires no cooking, try a cheese-tasting buffet, mating each cheese with a complementary fruit or vegetable. Wine enhances cheese and offers many options, from a tasting of California Zinfandels or French Beaujolais, to a choice of Merlots, Pinot Noirs, or Cabernet Sauvignons from two vintages. Offer a combination of at least six cheeses, each paired with a fruit or vegetable: This activity allows you to discover cheese with all your senses, while enriching your knowledge about its matching possibilities with drinks and other food.

You will also learn how it is made, what are its different variations in function of the milk and the elaboration process.

6 different cheeses 12 combinations with other foods (marmalades, vegetables, seasonal fruits, dried fruits) 4 different breads Dessert, cheese sherbet (for groups of more than 50 people) 6 different wines After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 34 people Duration: 5 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request

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Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: The services of our exclusive cheese specialist Tasting guide on cheese All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

Tel.: +34/93-317 19 09, mail: info@foodwinetours.com www.foodwinetours.com www.ociovital.com

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A trip to Chocolate A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine.

Although chocolate is not typically Mediterranean, it is closely linked to the Spanish culture.

For several centuries it has been part of us, now associated with specific periods, now used for its medicinal and psychological properties. But it is in its purest expression, namely the cocoa bean, that chocolate reveals its whole character and intensity.

The transformations that undergo cacao can affect its genuine flavour, but they also confer many attributes, that are worth discovering.

This tasting is a sensorial trip into the chocolate world, where you will learn the whole process that transforms the cocoa bean to the chocolate we are used to eating. More than a tasting, it is actually a chocolate dinner, which explores the infinite possible combinations that chocolate offers. The dinner is served with a selection of combined wines.

Salad A selection of cured meats and bread Chocolate snack with salted chocolate bonbon Chocolate bars with different % in cocoa Chocolate bon bons Ice cream 6 different wines After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 34 people Duration: 5 hours Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year around under request

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Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

The activity includes: The services of our exclusive chocolate specialist Tasting course and Tasting guide Chocolate & wine tasting material All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

Tel.: +34/93-317 19 09, mail: info@foodwinetours.com www.foodwinetours.com www.ociovital.com

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A trip to Olive oil Olive oil tasting & cooking Class "Except the vine, there is no plant which bears a fruit of as great importance as the olive."

Pliny (AD 23-79)

As an amazing approach for the novice, Olive Oil tasting astonishes guests every time. Olive Oil is the faithful reflect of its native tang, and reveals pervasive aromas which is its typical and exclusive signature.

Smooth, Vibrant, Bold. Just like a fine wine, the varietals, climate and region determine an olive oil’s taste. From the southern olive groves of Andalusia to the northern region of Catalonia, Spain, the number one producer of olive oil, offers the largest variety of unique oils that are as distinctive and diverse as nature itself. They will heighten the flavour of your meals and reveal the creativity in you.

We will do a TRIP TO OLIVE OIL, learn what Olive Oil is, what are its origins, its extraction method and its designations, and most important of all its applications to cooking.

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 34 people Duration: 5 hours Availability: Mondays to Saturdays, all year around under request

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Languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Swedish The activity includes: Olive oil specialist that will lead the tasting and meal 6 different types of olives 6 different applications of olive oil in cooking in 6 different dishes Meal based on the 6 dishes matched with 6 wines 4 different breads 6 wines All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

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A trip to all your Senses A Laboratory of Taste

For all intents and purposes, our sense of smell and sense of taste are inseparable.

Without our sense of smell, our taste sensations are limited. The tongue detects 4 basic sensations: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Most of what we experience as taste depends upon our sense of smell.

Taste and smell together, but not separately, activate parts of the brain responsible for flavour. You will find out that whether we think a smell is familiar or not depends on pairing the smell with the taste that usually accompanies it.

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Conference: philosophy and psychology of Taste Experiences: o Visual factor and the change of taste. o Perception change due to temperature. o Extreme tastes o Tastes that are aromas / aromas that are tastes o Perception change due to textures. o Harmonies and contrasts Aperitif: Stimulants of the taste cells

After this activity, enjoy an optional meal in the venue with wines.

Locations: all over Spain.

Participants: Groups from 8 to 34 people Duration: 5 hours Availability: Mondays to Saturdays, all year around under request

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Languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Swedish The activity includes: Taste science specialist Tasting course and Tasting guide.

All local taxes The activity does not include: • Venue rental • Glassware and dishes

Tel.: +34/93-317 19 09, mail: info@foodwinetours.com www.foodwinetours.com www.ociovital.com

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The world of chocolate Although chocolate is not typically Mediterranean, it is closely linked to the Spanish culture.

If one had to pinpoint where modern Spanish chocolatemaking began, it would be in Barcelona.

This activity consists of a trip thru the Chocolate world, with a tasting, a museum visit, a chocolate workshop and a snack.

Program Entrance to the Chocolate Museum of Barcelona, a sensorial trip into the chocolate world, where you will learn the whole process that transforms the cocoa bean to the chocolate we are used to eating.

More than a tasting, it is actually a chocolate trip, which explores the infinite possible combinations that chocolate offers.

Chocolate workshop: this explains the characteristics of chocolate, how it is worked and handled, and how to make a figure. Everyone can make their own chocolate figure.

Tasting workshop: the different varieties of chocolate are explained as well as their characteristics, how each variety should be sampled, etc. Four varieties are sampled: ivoire, guanajá lactée, jivara lactée and guanajá (70%).

A snack based on hot chocolate, teacakes and water.

Locations: Barcelona: Barcelona City Participants: Groups from 15 to 40 people Duration: 2,5 hours

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Availability: Mondays to Saturdays, all year around under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.

Program includes

The services of our gastronome guide Chocolate workshop Tasting Workshop Visit to the Museum of Xocolata in Barcelona All the necessary material for the tasting Venue included

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