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Guided international craft chocolate tasting with an industry pioneer. Experience an extensive craft chocolate tasting session featuring international craft chocolates, hosted by the co-founder of the International Institute of Chocolate & Cacao Tasting, where the world's first accredited qualifications in chocolate tasting are offered. Martin is a leading voice in the fine chocolate industry, passionate about the promotion and preservation of fine chocolate and fine cacao and supporting those who produce them. He is also Acting Chairman of the new fine cacao and chocolate industry association, Direct Cacao and is a member of the Heirloom Cacao Preservation Initiative Tasting Panel and is a panel member of the Cocoa of Excellence competition. Martin is Judging Director of the International Chocolate Awards. Since founding Seventy% in 2001, Martin has travelled extensively, visiting cacao plantations and meeting with the world’s top cacao and chocolate producers. Martin also runs Seventy%’s ‘Slow Chocolate’ sensory taste workshops and tasting events and is a consultant to the fine chocolate and cacao growing industries worldwide.