Chocolate shops and museums, Marzipan, chocolate ice cream, and wine

Where can you try and buy chocolates? 

Chocolate

Austria

Top of my wish list is the chocolate museum in Vienna, Austria. You can take in the chocolate in the daytime. Then go to a wine restaurant in the evening. I read about them last week. Their website is down now (Wed 10 May 2023). But websites and museums come and go seasonally, for updates or during change of ownership. So I shall keep my eyes open. By the  next time I plan to visit their country, and city, I hope the website and shop and tours will be back in business.

UK

Cadbury. So much to see. Home of the chocolate teapot. (You eat the chocolate tea pot. Don't put tea in it.)

USA

Hershey shop in New York. Not a museum, but so many types of chocolate to see.

Wine

Austria

In Vienna, in the evening, go to the Heirige, taverns which pop up at harvest time for you to try the new season's wine. 

Cyprus

Top of my memories is the wine museum in Cyprus. Lots of photos and images of wine production and storage through the ages. Wine tasting on the ground floor with the owner afterwards.

Germany

The Oktoberfest ends in October, and the name reflects the date in the early days. However, now it starts earlier to catch the tourist trade and better, warmer weather at the end of summer, and starts at the end of September. 

Hungary

Hungary has a marzipan museum, in Budapest, the capital city. The museum's name is the Szabo Marcipan Museum.

UK

The UK has many vineyards. Denbies is the largest in England. The visitor centre has a supermarket size shop. I took a tour up the hillside and could see how the sun on one mountainside created a different environment or terroir, as the French say, territory, creating a different type of wine. A good place to start. The indoor tour included wine bottles and cellars.  You can buy their sparkling wine online.

Spain

We arrived too late for lunch and too early for dinner in the grand restaurant. So we tried their snack service, which proved to be very good. I loved the big shop. Outside, are planted the huge numbers of vine types, all labelled, but to me looking more or less identical, were amazing. The museum makes a charge and is large so allow enough time to enjoy it all. 

Useful Websites

UK

https://www.denbies.co.uk/

https://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/

https://salcombedairy.co.uk/

SPAIN

https://vivancoculturadevino.es/en/foundation/vivanco-museum-of-wine-culture/

GERMANY

https://www.niederegger.de/en/cafe-niederegger/marzipan-museum/