September 2010 Early Reserve your
CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
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Released ultra-fresh in October
The EXCELLENCE Collection Your
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The PURSUIT of Excellence! Welcome to the latest edition of the Tasting Club catalogue – specially created for members only. With the onset of autumn our minds turn to the very best chocolate from the past months, The Excellence Collection. It’s ready for imminent release, see page 4 for a preview of what’s to come. You’ll also see that we’ve been keeping ourselves busy this summer, perfecting not one but two special editions. The first is this year’s stunning Christmas Collection and the second is our brand new Chocolatier Mystery – a delicious tasting game that will be ready just in time for the party season!
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A catalogue designed just for our members!
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Introducing
The EXCELLENCE Awards With a glittering array of the very best chocolate recipes, The Excellence Collection shouldn’t be missed. And with the winners now chosen, the wait is almost over – so get set to savour again, or discover for the first time, our true chocolate celebrities, the crème de la crème! See over for full details
Best wishes
Angus Thirlwell, Club Founder
Why reserve your specials?
All Tasting Club specials are made especially for members. We usually only ever do one special making and stocks are always limited. Reserve your collection to ensure that you don’t miss out and get yours ultra-fresh after making. And you only pay for your personal box on receipt of the chocolates.
How to reserve
There are 3 easy ways to reserve the specials featured in this catalogue. 1. FREEPOST Use tick box reply card on the back page. Just
Relea
sed
OCT
tick box and sign, cut out card and pop in the post. Alternatively put completed card in an envelope and post to Special Reserve, Tasting Club, FREEPOST ANG10659, Royston, SG8 5YD.
2. ONLINE Order online via Manage my Membership* Login at www.chocs.co.uk/reserve
Christmas Collection – see pages 6-7
3. PHONE 08444 933 933 * for help with the Manage My Membership area go to www.chocs.co.uk/MMMhelp
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is yours
RESERVED?
2010
Save £££’s on buying extras – see details on back page
Most members are automatically eligible to receive Excellence. Check your invoice letter for more details. We will send you a postcard notification before we send your collection
Phone the Tasting Club Team on 08444 933 933
www.chocs.co.uk/EXCELLENCE
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Our most glamorous tasting event
the EXCELLENCE Collection Welcome to the ‘Oscars’ of the chocolate world! One of the most delicious highlights in the chocolate tasting calendar and our most exclusive event – strictly members only. So get out your glad rags and prepare for glitz, because the very best of the best are coming back for a stunning encore – freshly remade and dressed to kill.
A new autumn home for Excellence By popular demand, The Excellence Collection has moved to a new autumn spot in the tasting calendar – as many members felt its previous home in February was too soon after Christmas. Autumn is, after all, the beginning of the serious chocolate season, so Excellence will feel right at home!
From an elite shortlist of contenders, created from members’ scores and comments, we have chosen the select few for the ultimate Tasting Club accolade. From Best Leading Chocolate and Fruity Creation, to the Most More-ish and the stunning Knock Your Socks Off Award – there’s something in every Excellence category to delight! And what’s more, each and every one of them is a supreme winner, cherry-picked for this prestigious collection.
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Take a peek at some of this year’s
Classic Excellence Superstars Best Leading Chocolate – Caramel Cheesecake… stealing the limelight with oozingly soft caramel and the distinctive sour cream flavours of cheesecake. Best Liqueur – Whisky Truffle… a stunning star of the fortified recipes with a light cream ganache laced with whisky from the northern Scottish Highlands. Best Concept Chocolate – Brandy Butter… a seasonal star that was given a winning upgrade – with super soft buttercream and oak aged armagnac.
Best Member’s Creation – Rhubarb & Custard Reminisce… a superb Create a Chocolate Competition winner taking us straight back to childhood with bourbon vanilla cream and rhubarb. Best ‘Knock Your Socks Off’ – Czarina… it may have a regal name, but this cocktail really packs a kick – with vodka and apricot brandy in a refreshing light ganache. We look forward to sharing these and many more Excellence superstars with you.
Excellence is coming
Excellence is released in October and contains the very best chocolates from recent tasting selections as chosen by members. Most members are automatically eligible to receive the Excellence Collection and you will receive a postcard notification before we send your Collection. ● A unique collection of chocolate superstars ● Specially made for members ● Members-only price just £17.95 (including delivery) ● Freshly recreated with 3 versions to choose from ● Sent at their peak of freshness ● Complete with tasting notes and scorecard ● Available in three choices – Classic, Dark and Elements
released october
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Phone the Tasting Club Team on 08444 933 933
www.chocs.co.uk/excellence
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The Great Big Christmas Adventure Starts Here! Angus Thirlwell, Club Founder
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ith a rich tradition of foods, flavours and aromas, Christmas is an undeniably exciting time. It’s also a time for family and friends to gather and celebrate with some of life’s festive luxuries – which is exactly why our Christmas Collection is our biggest, most exciting special edition of the year. Created to be a striking centrepiece for your Christmas table, it’s brimming with 36 chocolates inspired by the flavours of the season. That’s as well as 6 solid chocolate festive pieces cast from exclusive hand-drawn designs. And it’s not just our biggest collection of the year either, it’s one of our most striking too – bursting with all the colour and excitement of Christmas, from deep reds and greens, to stars and sprinklings of seasonal sparkle.
The must-have collection for Christmas ● Created especially for members only ● 18 exclusive recipes ● 6 solid chocolate pieces ● Includes tasting notes ● Freshly made for Christmas ● Available in Classic or Dark
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A feast for the senses awaits you… with the traditional winter warming spices of MULLED WINE in a light ganache…. There’s a festive twist to an upliftingly fruity mousse in CHRISTMAS MESS and a seasonal essential in the form of WHISKY EGGNOG with its creamy ganache, pinches of cinnamon and nutmeg and splashes of warming whisky… get all traditional with the fruity notes of CRANBERRY & APPLE fortified with a tot of calvados… try the dark chocolate mousse in our ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS PUD… and the warming notes of BRANDY BUTTER in a light and fluffy buttercream, or even the spiced light mousse of JOLLY GINGERBREAD… Plus many more Christmas inspired recipes to enjoy. See over for full details.
Please order by 8th November
Members
Only
£22.95 inc. delivery
Send no money now!
Secure your Christmas Collection
Reserve yours today 6
Phone the Tasting Club Team on 08444 933 933
www.chocs.co.uk/CHRISTMAS
– see page 12 7
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The Story
It was Christmas Eve at Ganache Towers, home to one of the world’s greatest chocolatiers. However, the one person who would not be enjoying Christmas Day was the man himself. For Jan Duya lay slumped over his chocolatier’s table – DEAD! Hercule Praline, the renowned chocolate detective, was on the scene within the hour. Undoubtedly foul play was afoot, but which
of the six people in the house that night had a motive? Who had the means? And did any have the opportunity? With the party season fast approaching, it’s the perfect time to gather your friends and family and indulge in a little mystery, mischief and chocolate – please order by 11th November to make sure you get yours!
EXCLUSIVE PRIZE DRAW ● An irresistible game for the party season ● For up to 12 players (when the chocolates are cut in half) ● Including 30 chocolates, Menu, CD & Suspect Cards ● One special making in time for the Christmas season ● Exclusive Prize Draw to win a year’s FREE chocolate ● Members-only price ● £22.95 including delivery
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● The Menu – giving you the low down on each piece of delicious evidence with a detailed description of all Jan Duya’s last act was to arrange five five chocolates. chocolates on the table in front of him. ● The Suspect Cards – featuring Hercule Praline’s notes Was this merely the work of an on each of the suspects, so you can consider their motives, obsessively neat man, or an intriguing means and opportunities. and jolly tasty clue? ● The CD – just pop in the CD, set the scene and let the voice of Hercule Praline guide you though the game. ● The Solution – carefully sealed to deter any premature peeking, this is where the answer lies. And inside there’s a surprise waiting for the winner too.
The Game
There’s only one way to find out…
Your chance to WIN a whole year of FREE chocolate tasting once you have reached your conclusion.
Members
Only
Send no money now!
Reserve yours today – see see page page 12 15 www.chocs.co.uk/MYSTERY
£22.95 inc. delivery
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Want Fortified or Early RESERVE Excellence for Christmas?
Why reserve your specials? All Tasting Club specials are made especially for members. We usually only ever do one special making and stocks are always limited. Reserve your collection to ensure that you don’t miss out and get yours ultra-fresh after making. And you only pay for your personal box on receipt of the chocolates.
As requested by members we are remaking two of our recent special collections just in time for the Christmas festivities.
Fortified 5-Star for Christmas The mingling of authentic chocolate and premium liqueurs is for many the ultimate marriage made in heaven. Which probably explains why every year the Fortified Collection is one of our highest rated special editions. And by popular demand we will be creating a fresh selection of Fortified for Christmas time.
How to order ers
Save £££’s
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Delivery early December
Contains 36 chocolates full of boozy recipes brimming with 5-star wines, spirits and liqueurs.
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extras
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POST: see reply card overleaf PHONE: 08444 933 933 WEB: WWW.CHOCS.CO.UK/RESERVE
To buy additional specials at a reduced price go to www.chocs.co.uk/RESERVE and use the manage my membership area
alternatively call us on 08444 933 933
Excellence returns for Yule-tide
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The ‘Oscars’ of the chocolate world! One of the most delicious highlights in the chocolate tasting calendar and our most exclusive event – strictly members only. We are creating an ultra-fresh reprieve of the Classic box for Christmas.
Contains 30 ultra-fresh Classic chocolate superstars.
Order Form
Delivery early December
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