Guided Chocolate Tasting & Cacao Farm Tour in Honokaa

Chocolate lovers rejoice! A truly ambrosial variety of cacaos and chocolates is being grown and formulated on a small, lush farm above Honoka’a Town. The farm’s proprietor and chocolatier, Mike Pollard, brings both his family’s farming history and scientific rigor (he has been an aerospace engineer) to the making of extraordinary chocolates. We urge you to sign up for a Cacao Farm Tour, led by Mike, and learn about the growing of cacao and the contributions of cacao varieties and terroir, the ingredients and what to look for in a premium chocolate, the chemistry of chocolate, its health benefits and, most important, how to taste chocolate (like a fine wine, premium chocolate’s flavors trigger different sensations an they make contact with different locations on your palate and tongue). You’ll compare and discuss samples before caravanning into town to visit the processing operation, where you’ll see where the cacao nibs are ground, cane sugar is added, and the chocolate is tempered and sealed. Two days after our tour, we are still afloat on a cloud of our new-found appreciation for premium-quality chocolate. We have Mike Pollard and his Honoka’a Chocolate VIP Cacao Farm Tour and Chocolate Tasting to thank for this enlightened state.