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A historic first was recorded in The Dominican Republic, which recently held its debut National Chocolate Festival in Santo Domingo, celebrating some of the region’s finest artisan confectionery, reports Neill Barston.
For the inaugural Caribbean event, entrants could sign up for more than twenty online and in-person activities to learn about fourteen companies within the sector as part of its celebration of the industry.
The festival was topped off with an award ceremony for the first Dominican Chocolate Competition (pictured), in which participating chocolatiers entered a total of 40 chocolate samples in three categories: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and experimental chocolate. An official judging panel of domestic and international industry professionals and experts evaluated the chocolate.
The Dominican Republic promotes its unique fine cocoa with new festival By Anthony Myers The Dominican Republic National Chocolate Festival has announced winners of its first chocolate competition, which attracted over 40 entries in three categories: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and experimental chocolate.
Held in the capital, Santo Domingo, the featured festival event included an official judging panel of domestic and international industry professionals and experts who evaluated the chocolate.
There was also a public judging panel of 400 consumers, each of whom received five random chocolates to evaluate, organizers said.
The official panel awarded nine winning chocolates in the three categories according to physical appearance, mouthfeel, fragrance, flavour-aroma balance, global quality and global impression: