Special Edition
Online Cacao Tasting Workshop With Sebile
Wednesday 18 November 2026, 20:00 CET
Free to join, live on Zoom, with a 20% discount on two of our single-origin ceremonial cacaos.
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Leave your name and email below. You will receive the Zoom link and a short preparation guide with everything to have ready at home.
What Is A Cacao Tasting?
Discover What Makes Cacao Truly Exceptional
A cacao tasting is a slow, guided way of meeting cacao with all your senses. Instead of simply drinking her, you pause to notice her aroma, texture, flavour and finish, and you learn to recognise what sets high-quality ceremonial cacao apart.
In this live online workshop, cacao sensory specialist Sebile Bilgic guides you through a side-by-side tasting of our two single-origin ceremonial cacaos, Maya Mountain Belize and Alta Verapaz Guatemala, alongside a familiar 100% dark chocolate as a reference. You taste each one as a solid piece and as a warm cacao shot, and discover how origin and fermentation shape the character in your cup.
No experience needed. Just curiosity, an open heart and a little time for yourself.
Meet Your Guide
Sebile Bilgic, Cacao Sensory Specialist
Sebile is a cacao sensory specialist, trained chocolate taster and olive oil master consultant, and the founder of Cacao Soul. She teaches people to read the subtle language of cacao, from origin and fermentation to the very last note on the tongue.
She is also a friend of the Herbal Cacao family and a true lover of our cacao. For this Special Edition Circle she has created a tasting notes sheet especially for Herbal Cacao, which you receive when you sign up.
The Story Of Cacao: From Bean To Cup
What You Will Experience
- Welcome and arriving. An introduction to sensory tasting: slowing down and meeting cacao with curiosity.
- Origin and fermentation. A short, clear look at what shapes the character and quality of cacao.
- Guided solid tasting. Three samples side by side: aroma, texture, flavour and finish, with water and apple to refresh the palate in between.
- The cacao shot. Prepare both origins as a warm shot and compare how each one expresses herself in the cup.
- Beyond the cup. Bringing cacao into everyday cooking, with a simple fusion cacao recipe to try at home.
- Reflection and Q&A. Share what you noticed, ask Sebile anything, and close the circle together.
Questions About The Cacao Tasting
Wednesday 18 November 2026 at 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time). The session lasts about 75 minutes, with a little extra time if there are questions.
Yes. This is a Special Edition of the Herbal Cacao Circles, our free online gatherings. Joining costs nothing. To taste along, you can order our Maya Mountain & Alta Verapaz Duo Pack at 20% off.
Online, on Zoom. You receive the link by email after you sign up, so you can join from anywhere in the world.
Not at all. Sebile guides you step by step. Whether you are new to cacao or have been drinking her for years, you will learn to taste with more awareness.
20 g each of Maya Mountain Belize and Alta Verapaz Guatemala cacao, a small piece of 100% dark chocolate, hot (not boiling) water, two small cups, a spoon or whisk, plain water and a Granny Smith apple. We send you a full preparation email before the session.
Sebile is a cacao sensory specialist, trained chocolate taster, olive oil master consultant and the founder of Cacao Soul. She created a tasting notes sheet especially for this circle.
Yes, the circle is recorded for our community.
Ceremonial cacao is whole cacao: the beans are fermented, dried, roasted and ground into a paste that keeps all of her natural cacao butter, with nothing added. Chocolate is usually refined and mixed with sugar, milk or other ingredients. In the workshop you taste the difference for yourself.
We Would Love To Taste With You
Pour a cup, light a candle and join us on Wednesday 18 November. Free to join, from wherever you are.