NAIVE LAS TRINCHERAS CANABOBO NL14, VENEZUELA 75%, 57GR

Naive relies on Lithuania's old fashioned agriculture and harvests wild ingredients from some of the world's most pristine forests to create distinctly Eastern European chocolate. Ingredients are freeze dried and ground with the cocoa, resulting in bars with silky smooth textures that carry distinct aromas. Naive’s founder and chocolate maker Domantas Uzpalis is a creative soul who is constantly reinventing the entire line. Not to miss is Domantas’s inimitable Nano_Lot concept, constantly rotating bars made from tiny batches of the most exclusive and limited cocoa in the world. The history of cacao in Venezuela goes back some 450 years, to the 16th century and the Spanish colonists. To this day, it is considered to be the world capital of premium cacao. There are two elements that make Venezuela’s fine flavor cacao so very attractive. One is that the country’s geography protects it from most natural disasters. Most of the plantations throughout the country, and throughout history, have