Cite du Chocolat Valrhona — Attraction in Valence

Amazing experience tasting chocolate and wine. The wine pairing was especially wonderful.

My reflection after this visit:

The pleasure of wine is cumulative. Memories, smells, and experiences are released by a wine. That is why there is often a subjective element to what one tastes in a wine. So the key to enjoying wine, and particularly a complex, fine wine is copiousness: a mature, diverse, and well-stocked larder of life experiences. Tastes, smells, places, memories – life!

For a wine to taste like a pine forest after a fresh rain, you need to experience a pine forest after a fresh rain. For a wine to remind you of grandma’s kitchen after thanksgiving, you need to have taken a second to breath in grandma’s kitchen after thanksgiving. So do you want to enjoy fine wine? Start by stopping and smelling the next rose on your path.

“51% of the pleasure of wine is not found in the glass, but in the surrounding and associations.”

—Guillaume Rénaud, French œnologue who taught us to pair wine with...

Really informative if you want to know more about chocolate! I will said it worth the price of the ticket. For high end chocolate lovers, Valrhona once again proves that they are the top in the game. The museum costs around 10€ per adult, you will get a nice little bag of chocolate before your entrance, which includes a wide range of chocolates you could taste along your visit in each section. You also get a 10% discount coupon in the boutique!

The beginning there is a little video section to show you how to taste the aroma of milk and dark chocolate. Here you get another 4 pieces of chocolate!

We also joined two little session of animations one show us how cacao bean becomes chocolate, one show us how chocolate bon bons are made.

One little suggestion is that we felt the visit lacked a little surprise . It’s a not bad museum but there sure are more creative ways to present! I felt every time I visit Lego stores they are always really cool in display or...

It was a famous chocolate 🍫 in France 🇫🇷 for a long time. This museum is kind of telling you how they make chocolate 🍫 from simple to factory like nowadays. It was a fancy chocolate, and you will have more information about how they improved people life around the world( South America, Africa...) with the cacao tree 🌳 to make a difference chocolate with different flavors and teases.

It was nice when they gave me some chocolate without milk cause I got lactose. With your ticket 🎟 you can scan and get some free chocolate inside the museum. Upstairs, they have the place for kids to place, and the parents can drink some coffee to take a break. Next door, they have a bouquet chocolate store. So you can visit and choose some chocolate like gift 🎁 for your people then. Good luck, and have a nice experience there! Highly recommended if you...