Zotter Schokoladen Manufaktur

Choco Shop Theatre

In order to avoid long waiting times, we urgently recommend you to make a reservation.

The z o t t e r Chocolate Manufacture in Bergl / Riegersburg.
The z o t t e r Chocolate Manufacture in Bergl / Riegersburg.
a chocolate fountain
An expedition into the realm of the senses...

All about chocolate – From the bean to the cult

How is chocolate created? What do freshly roasted cocoa beans or cheese in chocolate taste like? The Choco Shop Theatre offers an exciting tasting expedition for everyone who hungers for chocolate. Chocolate is an experience!

Immerse yourself in the world of chocolate

The guided tasting tour around the zotter world of chocolate provides valuable information on chocolate as well as numerous creatively arranged titbit stations. They wander around the transparent ChocolateFactory along paths of glass and accompany the transformation of the cocoa bean into chocolate.

You may expect:

  • Cocoa Cinema – Film journey to the cocoa farmers in Latin America
  • Chocolate Factory – Here you may get to know all the production steps from the roasting, via the fine milling up to the conching and taste intermediate products such as cocoa nibs or roller powder.
  • BASiC Filling Station – Tap into the BASiC couverture with an increasing cocoa content. 
  • Labooko-Cracker – Whisks you away piece by piece into the world of cocoa.
  • Drinking Chocolate onLine – The smallest Doppelmayr cable car of the world serves you Drinking Chocolates.
  • Mitzi Blue Turntables – The XXL-record player presents the round chocolate bars.
  • balleros Roulette – Small chocolate snacks are rolling in copper kettles.
  • Running Chocolate – Hand-scooped chocolates wind themselves as around a glass panorama.
  • From May 1st 2011 with the Edible Zoo – Experience animal delights on an area of 27 hectares with Farmer’s Golf, Gherkin Fishing and a lot of animals. More on the topic

Guided tours and prices

We offer you three different guided tours::

  • ChocoPhonia,
  • ChocoMania or
  • Once per month Choco & Wine.

Please find more detailed information under

Guided tours and prices


Handicapped accessibility: Wheelchair users are kindly invited to visit our Running Chocolate free of charge. The visit of the entire building complex including the other tasting stations is for reasons of building technology not possible.