05.13.07
Port and Chocolate
When an item popped up in a local weekly a few weeks ago talking about a special tasting evening at a local business, all I had to say to my husband was “port and chocolate” and he said “Make a reservation.” And thus we signed ourselves up for a tasting this past Thursday at Theo Chocolate, a new Seattle chocolate-maker that specializes in organic and single-origin chocolates, with ports from Warre’s Port, the oldest maker of port in the world, and featuring Dominic Symington, one of the partners of Warre’s.
It seemed at first that we were destined to not make it to the tasting. Although we’d thought we’d left ourselves plenty of transit time, we managed to get trapped between openings of two of the bridges over Seattle’s Ship Canal and the associated traffic, and then it turned out I’d gotten the location of the Theo factory wrong. When we finally got there, 10 minutes late, the tables were all full and they had no record of our reservation. Fortunately, the organizer took my word for it that we had, indeed, signed up, and told us that we could sit on one of the couches in the back and they would set us up with glasses. And thus we got to have a remarkable tasting experience.