80% WHITE CACAO (Ancient Dark Chocolate) Naive 65g

A blend of heritage heirloom cacao varieties is grown on the small source farm, including pentagona, lagarta and some ancient criollo types. The complete annual harvest of these old varieties is only approximately 70–140 kg (depending on the particular year) and, under ideal conditions, is almost entirely reserved for Domantas's Naive. This goes hand in hand with his unconventional approach to sourcing distinctive ingredients in small quantities, directly and locally. The beans are fermented in wooden boxes for five days. They are turned three times a day and then dried on wood in the sun. The absence of purple pigments and darkness in the seeds indicates the beans' particular heritage and ancient genetics and accounts for the pale, light color of the chocolate.

In a small town in eastern Lithuania, Chocolate Naive makes its distinctive chocolates "from bean to bar". Early each morning, the chocolate maker carefully roasts fresh cacao beans, whose delicious aroma gently wakes the town's residents. Just as a hundred years ago, Naive slowly conches the cacao beans to release their extraordinary range of flavors with notes of fruit, nuts and flowers. These handcrafted bars are stored to mature before diverse flavor ranges are created with natural superfoods and spices. At Chocolate Naive, one of only 200 producers of this kind worldwide, the entire production cycle begins with the dried cacao bean...

Premium cacao beans are carefully selected from exceptional farms. They are then transported along old sea routes to Europe and finally to Lithuania, the home of Chocolate Naive. Two key principles matter most to Naive: first, they work only with the finest ingredients in the world. Second, they strive to become world-class craftspeople in working with those ingredients. That is all. Naive makes chocolate in ways that reveal as much as possible of each cacao bean's character. The chocolate is finally born only after careful analysis of flavor, color, aroma and texture. For some time now, Naive products have been placing Lithuania on the delicacies map as a rising star of the global gourmet chocolate scene. Experience a piece of our secret for yourself.