“Inside this room, all of my dreams become realities, and some of my realities become dreams. And, almost everything you'll see is eatable, edible, I mean, you can eat almost everything.” /Willy Wonka/
Josef Zotter, the man behind the Zotter Chocolate Factory in Riegersburg, Austria is almost as mad as Willy Wonka of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. His creations are filled with the most unusual flavors like marinated plums with caramelized bacon, nougat with pork crackling, candied cranberry with porcini mushroom or alpine cheese with grapes and walnut. In his Chocolate Theatre, you can see how his chocolate (certified organic and fair trade) is made from bean to bar and have the opportunity to taste all of their products and can compare chocolate (flowing from chocolate fountains) for cocoa content from 10% up to 100%. The funniest part is the drinking chocolate tasting, because the bars are coming out in chairlifts circulating all around the room. The final tasting station is where chocolate bits of different flavors go around on a conveyor belt and you can sample them all.
I also love the packaging of Zotter chocolates; Andreas H. Gratze is in charge of the visual design and his whimsical, quirky graphics make every Zotter bar “an expedition into the realm of the senses”.
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