70% RAW PORCELANA (Light Bioactive Dark Chocolate) Naive, 50 g
Product detailed description
A pale bar that is nonetheless a 70% dark. It sounds like a contradiction until you know it is made from white cacao. The criollo porcelana variety produces beans so light they run to beige, because the dark pigment simply is not there. The colour is closer to caramel. The taste is not.
The beans come from Hacienda Betulia near Medellin in Colombia, a farm growing three of its own criollo selections propagated purely by grafting, so nothing crosses with anything else. Naive asked them to adjust the fermentation so the character of the raw bean survives, then made the bar the raw way at low temperatures.
The flavour is brutally bitter, astringent and tannic, with a long drying finish and a sweet hint right at the end. This is not a bar to eat by the row. It is a bar to break tiny pieces off. Nano_lot means micro batches from farms that sometimes produce only thirty kilos of beans a year, and 600 bars of this one were made.
Key benefits
- White criollo porcelana cacao – a rare variety from Hacienda Betulia in Colombia
- 70% cocoa solids – a dark bar in spite of the pale colour
- Raw processing – made at low temperatures, with fermentation adjusted at the farm
- Two ingredients – white cacao and cane sugar, nothing else
- Nano_lot – a micro batch, only 600 bars made
- Flavour profile – pronounced bitterness, astringency, tannin and a drying finish with a sweet hint
How to enjoy it
Break off a genuinely small piece, this is not a bar to eat by the row. Let it dissolve slowly and wait for the finish, which holds for a long time. At that pace a 50 g bar can last weeks.
Ingredients
Nano_lot white porcelana cacao, cane sugar. Cocoa solids 70% minimum. Country of origin of the cacao: Colombia. Made in Lithuania.
| Nutrition | per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 2506 kJ / 599 kcal |
| Fat | 40 g |
| of which saturates | 23 g |
| Carbohydrate | 58 g |
| of which sugars | 35 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Salt | 45 mg |
Important information
May contain traces of milk, nuts and peanuts. Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. The best before date is printed on the pack.
Distributor
Manufacturer: Chocolate Naive, Lithuania.
Distributor: Adam Raw, Metylovice 552, 739 49 Metylovice, Czech Republic, Reg. No. 03452824.
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Naive: bean-to-bar chocolate from Lithuania that treats cacao like wine
Naive is a small Lithuanian chocolate maker with an unusual approach. Rather than forcing every bean into the same recipe, the team analyses each cacao lot for taste, colour, aroma and texture and only then decides how to roast, grind and finish it. The goal is to reveal the character of that specific bean, not to hide it under sugar and vanilla.
The results have put Lithuania on the map of fine chocolate and earned Naive a reputation as one of the rising names in the craft chocolate world. Some bars are experiments you will not see anywhere else: Jaguar Tree Cacao made from the rare Theobroma bicolor, Ambrosia, a dark chocolate with bee pollen and honey, Kefir dark-milk, and the sugar-free Molecules series. More than twenty of them are on the shelf at BJP Store.