Plans are already in motion for the hosting of the 10th annual, week-long Grenada Chocolate Festival.
The festival, which started in 2014, will take place from May 16 –21, 2023 and will celebrate the rich history and culture of chocolate production in Grenada.
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Grenada is home to six chocolate companies with unique status quality productions, all-the-more reason why the festival has become necessary for a display of the many varieties blended in to satisfy people’s tastes…Tri-Island Chocolate, Belmont Estate, Crayfish Bay Organic Chocolate, Jouvay Chocolate, Taste ‘D’ Spice Chocolate, and the world-famous Grenada Chocolate Company, a pioneer of the tree-to-bar chocolate movement.
This year, the festival is returning with what’s labeled as a special Rum Edition where attendees will learn about the history of rum and chocolate production, while enjoying a mix of rum tasting and tours at local distilleries, a master class with Renegade and Tri Island, and mixologist competitions at Mount Cinnamon.
Visitors will also explore cocoa fields of sustainable chocolate factories, behind-the-scene journeys of the ethically-produced tree-to-bar chocolate-making processes, chocolate arts and crafts, and even chocolate yoga meditation.
Grenada’s volcanic soil, warm weather, and thick rain-forests make the island an ideal climate to grow fine cocoa, of which only 12 percent of the worlds exported beans have this designation.
Here in the Spice Isle, 100 percent of cocoa exports are classified as fine flavored cocoa.
Grenada is reported to be producing in the range of 800 tons of cocoa per year, contributing to 6% of the country’s economic Gross Domestic Product.
