COCOA & GRAPES BLOG

Valrhona makes the finest quality chocolate for professional chocolatiers, and their Cité du Chocolate shares it with the rest of us.

This abbey in the Languedoc region of France provides history, beauty and wine in equal measures.

As the spring season blooms, Easter brings with it a myriad of traditions, each unique to different cultures around the world. In France,...

Each year, 27 January is observed as "National Chocolate Cake Day" in North America. It honours the approximately 250+ years this...

Bal Pagès, absolutely stunning label evoking images of vintage parties from the 1930s , has an equally stunning and unique taste.

This special day dedicated to all things cocoa-based is certainly not a time to discriminate. Go on, indulge yourself!

In celebration of International Rosé Wine Day, I thought it apropos to focus this blog on the often maligned and misunderstood pink wine.

It it often said, that Ice cream’s birthplace reaches as far back as the Second Century B.C.

If you are one of the many people who still do not like Rose Wine, why not try a Vin Gris. You might just a Gris with me.

Traveling to distant lands offers so many fascinating opportunities for discovery. One of my favourite discoveries is tasting local wines.