Naive – Rough-Ground 75%

“This retro-modern chocolate bar comes from the future of the past, so get on board the time machine and let’s go to the era of naive inventors and dreamers who opened a new human history chapter by learning how to fly like a bird, harness lightning, and tame horsepower. It was a new way of life, an accent to a personality, and romanticism made mechanical, with limitless view on potential, and the manifestation of invention and ideas.” – Domantas Uzpalis, chocolatier. 

About Naive’s Equator collection

The concept of the Equator collection is to use ingredients that come from a single ecosystem. Because an ecosystem’s minerals, water, and soil give life to its plants, the living things that thrive together inherently taste good together. Every chocolate bar from this collection is solely composed of ingredients grown in the area of the region of the earth surrounding the equator with bright and intense flavors symbiotically blended into the house-made tropical chocolate. 

Facts

We absolutely adore this bar. It’s dark, rough, unpolished and honest and is inspired by an ancient method of processing chocolate that emerged at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, when chocolate was made using cast-iron machines powered by steam engines. Naive wanted to retrieve this age-old precious processing method. Let’s celebrate going back in time!

The chocolate is made in-house with organic specialty cacao, which is mixed in certain proportions to form a clean, rich and flavorful base. The blend formulation is classified, but we can assure you it is top quality and fits perfectly with Chocolate Naive standards and values. 

Flavor notes

Initial taste of fresh strawberries and cherries followed by honey and – after a few seconds – some subtle nutty notes. 

Pairing suggestions

Smooth, sweet whiskeys pair best with this chocolate bar. Try experimenting with Macallan’s 12 YO or one of Edradour’s brews. Port-finished whiskeys pair it around the mouth for a while to let the flavours build and then add a piece of chocolate and let it melt. Heavenly.