hi there I'm Molly Smith a wine expert and what amazes me is the similarity between learning how to taste great chocolate and fine wine with me to learn a bit more is Stefan brooder a master chocolatier at Lindt Stefan taught me through the way that you as a professional would look at a bar of chocolate how to get the maximum enjoyment to me the most important thing is that we not just eat chocolate we enjoy chocolate with all of our five senses so the first impression is always at your eyes you have a look at the chocolate that elegant rapping at the golden lint leathers and to me always the unwrapping part for me already starts the pleasure yeah and the sound of that our minim foil it's like Christmas yeah well it's unwrapping a present it's a crystal festival every day then I have a look at the surface at a silky shine you can see the various tones of brown this is a symbol of high quality chocolate the snap of a chocolate well so as yeah a clear snap it's a sign of high quality chocolate doing that I've got to have a piece so yeah yeah crisp inviting sound and then the aroma I suppose is important as well absolutely another thing is if you wrap a little bit on the chocolate length chocolates never send your greeting yeah that is this is very important for the newest mounting experience we are so famous for and done very important to smell I always close my eyes if I smell hot chocolate it's so good so this one is the 85% Exynos yeah it has whole vanilla beans in there you really can smell it yeah that's just completely different to to custer type of vanilla yes now we start on the whole beans are in there yeah a little bit of sweetness but it's just so inviting and last but not least they've melt down real slowly and try to brace the right way in through your mouth out your nails it's an amazing sensory executive ogre the texture you know white and wine we actually talked a lot about texture and mouthfeel at wine you know you have some ways that have a light some ones that are very very very rich the thing with wine actually if you're gonna judge a great wine from just an okay wine and rather letters chocolate the flavor than the Ingram and that's what you look for for top quality you know you've got a great bottle when you have great lingering flavors but also for things like complexity you want to see if the pairings are success in general with chocolate if you're approaching it in in the way that I think is best which is informally having fun with this you can explore yet there are a few hard and fast rules if you're having a milk chocolate you might think of a sweeter wine and it always helps to get the wine a little bit sweeter than the chocolate or you risk a little bit of a clash similarly though you can contrast with a texture you know we've paired up in one of our videos Prosecco sparkling wine with some chocolate it works brilliantly and with this I've got some fantastic red wine and red wine can be an amazing pairing with dark chocolate so this is for me exactly there's just so many ways to enjoy two of the greatest pleasures in life wine and chocolate most importantly great company friends having together and having a good time thank you for watching and do explore some of our other videos but please try these for yourself at home they really are just great fun