GRAN NATIVO HAZELNUT PRALINE

A PLAQ milk with Piedmont hazelnut praline insert. A tasty alliance between a round chocolate and a praline rich in hazelnuts and not very sweet.

The best Piedmont hazelnuts we have tasted (and we have really tasted a lot of them!). The taste is powerful.

This limited edition PLAQ is made in small quantities to guarantee its freshness and intensity.
In PLAQ praline, always few ingredients but the best. And little sugar for more taste.

6 INGREDIENTS, NOTHING ELSE.

Organic Gran Nativo cocoa beans from Piura, Peru (46%), organic blond cane sugar from the state of São Paulo, Brazil (28%), organic cow’s milk powder (26% fat) from the Pays de la Loire region, France (14%), unrefined traceable organic cocoa butter with origin varying according to harvests (12%). Minimum 58% cocoa. Hazelnut praline filling: PGI hazelnuts from Piedmont, Italy (68%), organic blond cane sugar (17%), organic cocoa butter (15%), fleur de sel from Guérande, France. Lecithin-free.

A slight natural whitening may appear on this praline chocolate after a few weeks.
It is due to its richness in hazelnuts, its low sugar content, and the absence of any additives or preservatives.
This whitening does not affect the taste or quality of this chocolate.

It's been said that Peruvian cocoa is among the finest in the world, and Gran Nativo, with its incomparable range of aromas, is proof of this.

It is in the Piura region, derived from the word “Piruha” meaning “abundance,” that this cocoa develops all its flavors. It is a generous cocoa of so-called white beans, among the rarest and finest in the world, which give Gran Nativo its characteristic taste: fruity, smooth, and without bitterness. Its true name is actually Piura Blanco. We chose to keep the name “Gran Nativo” in memory of our partner Luis Mancini. He was the first to select these exceptional beans within the Norandino cooperative and to import them into Europe. We had the chance to meet him and visit the cooperative with him in 2019.

Today, it is Original Beans and Cacao Latitude that have taken up the torch in the villages of La Pareja and Loma Larga. Both villages are part of the Andanjo Community, as is the 2,800-hectare dry forest from which the beans come.

Gran Nativo cocoa takes root among fruit trees in an ecosystem composed of lemon and mango trees. This cocoa owes its distinctive aromas to the dry, arid climate of the Amazon forest and the strong irrigation of the Piura region, also known for its rice fields. Gran Nativo offers a unique and characteristic aroma: smooth and long on the palate, with hints of citrus and passion fruit.

Each delivered batch is processed individually into chocolate following a Bean-to-Bar philosophy, in “micro-batches,” in order to stay as close as possible to the aromatic characteristics, which can vary from one lot to another.

The beans are tasted, sorted, roasted at low temperature, mixed with unrefined cane sugar, stone-conched for 3 days, and then matured for 3 weeks. The resulting pure milk chocolate is then melted, molded, and packaged into bars.

Weight: 110g

Price per kilo: €181,82/kg

Nutritional Values ​​per 100g = Energy: 2452 kJ / 598 kcal, Fat: 47.3g (including saturated fatty acids: 18.6g), Carbohydrates: 30.6g (including sugars: 25.3g), Dietary fiber: 18.5g , Protein 12.2g, Salt: 0.1g.