Chocolate books online

Our new online Amazon bookstore gives you quick and easy access to the best fine chocolate books available.

Update your reading list now, or find the ideal chocoholic gift.

Southbank Chocolate Festival – 11-13 December 2009

Warm up the winter chill with The Chocolate Festival at the Southbank Centre, London, 11-13 Dec 2009. Join Seventypercent.com on Sat 12th for our talk and take our ‘Taste test’ in the Royal Festival Hall

Growing country chocolate with Melt Chocolates

A new season of joint monthly tastings celebrating fine chocolate made in cacao growing countries, in partnership with London chocolatier, Melt Chocolates.

Each month we’ll explore a new chocolate maker or country, with a talk, samples, specially made chocolates, glass of wine and guest speakers, in the fashionable surroundings of Melt’s Notting Hill shop.

Tasting events

From our monthly introduction to fine chocolate tastings, to large scale events for blue-chip clients, we run a whole range of tastings and events to suit all levels.
Whether its straightforward chocolate appreciation or matching chocolate with wine, whisky, rum or almost anything else, we have a tasting for you.

Latest and highlights

Meet the chocolate maker – Art Pollard of Amano

Event: Thu 11 Feb 2010, 19:30pm Events No Comments

In a specially arranged last minute event, Art Pollard of Amano will be our featured guest at our February tasting. Come along and find out all about this Award winning new US chocolate maker. Free Amano origin bar with every ticket.

William Curley – new Pimlico shop

Posted: November 14, 2009 by Martin Christy London buzz 3 Comments

William Curley’s new flagship store opens in London’s Pimlico Green. More than just a chocolatier shop, this is a spacious chocolate emporium that raises the bar for London chocolate shops and gives London even more of a claim to be a world class chocolate destination.

Callebaut buy Chocovic

Posted: November 12, 2009 by Martin Christy News, Nibs 1 Comment

Swiss giant Barry Callebaut, the choco-saurus of the chocolate world, has swallowed up Spanish fine chocolate maker Chocovic for an undisclosed sum. Pending European competition rulings, the deal should be complete by the end of the year.

New arrivals from Amedei

Posted: November 1, 2009 by Martin Christy Editor's blog 1 Comment

Amedei have a few new products on the way, which come along at the same time as a packaging overhaul of their entire range. The redesign will see the whole of the bar range brought into lineĀ  as 50g bars, the format currently used for the current Chuao, Porcelana and ‘9′ bars.
The really good news [...]

A tale of two rivers – Amano ‘Dos Rios’

Posted: October 25, 2009 by Martin Christy Editor's blog No Comments

A new origin chocolate from Amano, and this time a rather unique one. ‘Dos Rios’ is made from cacao with outlandish bergamot, rose and spice notes, created by Nazario Rizek in the Dominican Republic using an experimental fermentation technique. Oh, and Seventypercent played a small part in bringing it to life as well …

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Upcoming Events


  • Thu 11 Feb 2010, 19:30pm
    Meet the chocolate maker – Art Pollard of Amano
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  • Tue 16 Mar 2010
    Taste of Chocolate workshop – March
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  • Sun 21 Mar 2010, 14:00pm
    Taste of Chocolate workshop – Brighton
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  • Tue 20 Apr 2010, 19:30pm
    The Connoisseurs Club – advanced tasting session
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New website

September 30, 2009

Welcome to our new website, which is finally here, albeit in a not totally finished format. Hopefully you’ll agree it’s a huge improvement and will bear with us while we catch up with all the technical tweaking needed to deliver the site we want, and we hope you’ll find easier to use and more appealing.

Taste of Chocolate workshop – March

February 7, 2010

A new series of tasting events bringing a whole new approach to the art of chocolate appreciation, using fun and engaging games and taste experiments to awaken your chocolate senses and set you on your way to becoming a chocolate connoisseur.

Taste of Chocolate workshop – Brighton

February 7, 2010

A new series of tasting events bringing a whole new approach to the art of chocolate appreciation, using fun and engaging games and taste experiments to awaken your chocolate senses and set you on your way to becoming a chocolate connoisseur.