Naïve Porcini 62% 91.5/100

This bar might be more about the inclusion than it is about the origin of the cocoa beans, using Tanzanian beans from Kilombero to provide the base for Lithuanian Porcini mushrooms, Naïve chocolate’s home and origin. An excerpt from Naïve’s packaging – Lithuanians love their mushrooms, that is a fact. Each September, mushroom-hungry folks return to their super secret spots where all the best ones grow. And if you know the place, you keep it to yourself – this is the number one rule of mushroom picking. The second rule – do not pick the mushroom with the red and white spotted cap. First thing in the morning, mushroom pickers comb the forest and start collecting the first loot of chanterelles, birch boletes, slippery jacks and even cranberries. Step by step they move through the dense branches and swampy moss deep into the woods. Leave nothing to others – that is the true spirit of mushroom picking! And if you follow all these rules you might be lucky enough to find the King – the beautiful porcini mushroom! Just be sure to camouflage the place as you will have just found a super secret spot. Once these ingredients have been harvested they are taken to Naïve’s chocolate factory on the outskirts of Vilnius where Domantas Užpalis turns them into one of Naïve’s chocolate bars.