The Big Islands Premier Farm Tour and Chocolate Tasting Experience
Orchard Tour & Craft Chocolate Tasting Package
Duration: Approximately 3.5 hours
Our Orchard Tour is an engaging, collegiate-level seminar on everything cacao. Honoli'i Orchards exists on the cutting edge of international cacao research, and our team of industry professionals is excited to guide you through the details of our dynamic agricultural operations. Broadly, we will explore the history of cacao cultivation, how we grow and harvest cacao on our farm, and the magic of fermentation –however, our goal for each tour is to craft a curated experience for learners of all ages. This isn't a cookie-cutter tour, but one that adapts to your questions and responds to your curiosity.
This package also includes our full Craft Chocolate Tasting, so our guests can fully experience the "bean to bar" process. Please visit our "Farm Tours” page for a more detailed description of this offering.
We highly recommend this package for guests who are looking for something truly unique, unparalleled, and unhurried. We promise that you’ll return home with a memorable story, knowledge to share, and a new appreciation for the modern craft chocolate movement.
Craft Chocolate Tasting
Duration: Approximately 1.5 hours
Our Craft Chocolate Tasting is a curated experience for our guests who are truly here for the chocolate. Our professional guides will lead you through an unlimited sampling of over ten award-winning, single-origin chocolate bars from different cacao farms across Hawai'i, with details about each farm and their unique post-harvest practices. The tasting takes place in our beautiful open-air tasting room in the lush Honoli'i valley, with a view of the cacao orchards that extends down to the ocean on clear days.
Eat chocolate to your heart's content as we explore the wide variety of flavors that Hawaiian chocolate has to offer –from fudgy and earthy, to fruity and floral, there’s something for every palate. Through this tasting, you will gain a deeper understanding of your own chocolate flavor preferences to help you better navigate the global craft chocolate movement. We also have chocolate bars available for purchase at the end of the tasting if you would like to share your favorites with family and friends.
Guests who select the standalone Craft Chocolate Tasting will also enjoy an abbreviated discussion on the history of Honoli'i Orchards and the cutting-edge research that we conduct, along with information about basic cacao agronomics and the history of chocolate. We will sample the fresh fruit of two different cacao varieties and learn how the fruit is pollinated and how the pod develops. This compact tour occurs entirely in our tasting room and is an excellent fit for guests with a busy schedule who still want to squeeze in an unforgettable chocolate tasting experience. For those of us with time to spare and insatiable curiosity, we recommend selecting the Orchard Tour & Craft Chocolate Tasting Package