La Rifa Chocolateria at Popol Vuh

La Rifa Chocolateria visited us at Popol Vuh for an educational series on Oaxacan Chocolate...

La Rifa Chocolate Tour 2019 is a series of educational tasting sessions about the world's most delicious and most misunderstood food: chocolate! Daniel and Monica, from La Rifa Chocolateria in Mexico City presented different cacao varietals and the processing of those varietals. We began with a presentation on how Oaxacan chocolate is grown and harvested. We got to sample three examples of naturally processed beans

- 3 cacao beans

- 3 chocolates

- 1 cacao drink

I paired Banhez Pechuga de Pavo, a special limited release, that is made with the addition of wild fruits and a turkey breast that is suspended in the still. This mezcal provided a nice stone fruit and cocoa flavor along side the chocolates.

I want to thank Daniel and Monica for coming to Minneapolis and sharing their passions with us. This was an fun evening of learning and meeting new friends.