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Join us on a beautifully paired wine and chocolate experience. This guided tour walks you through the chocolate making process, from bean to bar! Taste the cacao every step of the way and finish with a chocolate and beverage tasting that excitingly pairs three truffles with three sustainably-made, small production wines, selected and poured by our local wine partner, WINECULT.

Attendees will enjoy a welcome drink while we give a brief introduction to our bean-to-bar, dark chocolate making process. Ingredients for decorating will abound and inspire, and you'll learn a few tidbits about how we invent flavor combinations for new delicious, sweet products at our chocolate factory. We will fill chocolate bar molds with luscious 75% dark chocolate, and you will get to decorate chocolate bars with local ingredients, like flowers, salt and fruit. While bars are setting up, we will lead a 20-30 minute chocolate tasting experience while you sip on perfectly paired wines to enhance the flavors. We are happy to provide a non-alcoholic tasting experience for anyone in the group who might require that. Your custom chocolate bars will go home with you in beautiful, resealable Twenty-Four Blackbirds pouches. Don't miss out on this delicious experience!

SEASONAL PROGRAM: JUNE 10TH ‘25 - JULY 29TH ‘25
Join the California Nature Art Museum and Yoga Instructor Lori Shirran for a gentle, restorative, and nature-inspired yoga class on the following days:
Tuesday, June 10th at 9AM
Tuesday, June 17th at 9AM
Tuesday, June 24th at 9AM
Tuesday, July 1st at 9AM
Tuesday, July 8th at 9AM
Tuesday, July 15th at 9AM
Tuesday, July 22nd at 9AM
Tuesday, July 29th at 9AM
Nature heals, and so does yoga! In this nature-inspired yoga class, we unite gentle expressions of yoga postures with calm breathing, while weaving in mindful reflection on the awe and wonder of nature. This is a class suited for beginners and all levels of ability.
This program series will be offered weekly on Tuesdays at 9AM for a limited time, June 10th 2025 - July 29th 2025. Dependent on whether or not there is sufficient interest and attendance, the Museum may continue to offer this program weekly thereafter.
About the Instructor:

Lori Shirran lives and teaches yoga on the beautiful California Central Coast, bringing 20+ yrs of yoga teaching experience to her classes. She finds deep inspiration for life through yoga, hiking in nature, mindfulness practices, world travel and spending valuable time with loved ones.

The class fee for this workshop is $10 per participant, and attendees must bring their own yoga mat and water bottle. Advance registration is required, 15 attendees max.
Questions? Contact (805) 686-8315 or email Rachel Metz at rachel@calnatureartmuseum.org.

This event is for someone with a high interest in single-origin dark chocolate, where it comes from, how it's processed and the technicalities behind making shiny, lusciously smooth chocolate from what starts as a small, bitter bean. You’ll get to taste chocolate at every stage, from bean to bar (including sampling through all our single origin dark chocolate bars), as well as other products we make, like caramel and chocolate-covered espresso beans. We’ll describe the stages of roasting, sorting, refining and tempering. You’ll come away having tasted a lot of chocolate and having learned more about our specialty!

Join us on a beautifully paired wine and chocolate experience. This guided tour walks you through the chocolate making process, from bean to bar! Taste the cacao every step of the way and finish with a chocolate and beverage tasting that excitingly pairs three truffles with three sustainably-made, small production wines, selected and poured by our local wine partner, WINECULT.

Attendees will enjoy a welcome drink while we give a brief introduction to our bean-to-bar, dark chocolate making process. Ingredients for decorating will abound and inspire, and you'll learn a few tidbits about how we invent flavor combinations for new delicious, sweet products at our chocolate factory. We will fill chocolate bar molds with luscious 75% dark chocolate, and you will get to decorate chocolate bars with local ingredients, like flowers, salt and fruit. While bars are setting up, we will lead a 20-30 minute chocolate tasting experience while you sip on perfectly paired wines to enhance the flavors. We are happy to provide a non-alcoholic tasting experience for anyone in the group who might require that. Your custom chocolate bars will go home with you in beautiful, resealable Twenty-Four Blackbirds pouches. Don't miss out on this delicious experience!

SEASONAL PROGRAM: JUNE 10TH ‘25 - JULY 29TH ‘25
Join the California Nature Art Museum and Yoga Instructor Lori Shirran for a gentle, restorative, and nature-inspired yoga class on the following days:
Tuesday, June 10th at 9AM
Tuesday, June 17th at 9AM
Tuesday, June 24th at 9AM
Tuesday, July 1st at 9AM
Tuesday, July 8th at 9AM
Tuesday, July 15th at 9AM
Tuesday, July 22nd at 9AM
Tuesday, July 29th at 9AM
Nature heals, and so does yoga! In this nature-inspired yoga class, we unite gentle expressions of yoga postures with calm breathing, while weaving in mindful reflection on the awe and wonder of nature. This is a class suited for beginners and all levels of ability.
This program series will be offered weekly on Tuesdays at 9AM for a limited time, June 10th 2025 - July 29th 2025. Dependent on whether or not there is sufficient interest and attendance, the Museum may continue to offer this program weekly thereafter.
About the Instructor:

Lori Shirran lives and teaches yoga on the beautiful California Central Coast, bringing 20+ yrs of yoga teaching experience to her classes. She finds deep inspiration for life through yoga, hiking in nature, mindfulness practices, world travel and spending valuable time with loved ones.

The class fee for this workshop is $10 per participant, and attendees must bring their own yoga mat and water bottle. Advance registration is required, 15 attendees max.
Questions? Contact (805) 686-8315 or email Rachel Metz at rachel@calnatureartmuseum.org.

This event is for someone with a high interest in single-origin dark chocolate, where it comes from, how it's processed and the technicalities behind making shiny, lusciously smooth chocolate from what starts as a small, bitter bean. You’ll get to taste chocolate at every stage, from bean to bar (including sampling through all our single origin dark chocolate bars), as well as other products we make, like caramel and chocolate-covered espresso beans. We’ll describe the stages of roasting, sorting, refining and tempering. You’ll come away having tasted a lot of chocolate and having learned more about our specialty!

Join us on a beautifully paired wine and chocolate experience. This guided tour walks you through the chocolate making process, from bean to bar! Taste the cacao every step of the way and finish with a chocolate and beverage tasting that excitingly pairs three truffles with three sustainably-made, small production wines, selected and poured by our local wine partner, WINECULT.

Attendees will enjoy a welcome drink while we give a brief introduction to our bean-to-bar, dark chocolate making process. Ingredients for decorating will abound and inspire, and you'll learn a few tidbits about how we invent flavor combinations for new delicious, sweet products at our chocolate factory. We will fill chocolate bar molds with luscious 75% dark chocolate, and you will get to decorate chocolate bars with local ingredients, like flowers, salt and fruit. While bars are setting up, we will lead a 20-30 minute chocolate tasting experience while you sip on perfectly paired wines to enhance the flavors. We are happy to provide a non-alcoholic tasting experience for anyone in the group who might require that. Your custom chocolate bars will go home with you in beautiful, resealable Twenty-Four Blackbirds pouches. Don't miss out on this delicious experience!