| Founded: | 2011 |
| Headquarters: | Giedraiciai Village, Lithuania |
| Style: | neo-Classic |
| Characteristics: | nothing extraneous but a very judicious use of various ingredients |
| Ferment: | market dependent |
| Roast: | air-popped |
| Conche: | shifting toward a refined direction |
| Impact: | A personal & social enterprise spearheaded by Domantas Uzpalis from a tiny, remote, rural hamlet on a dairy farm amidst cows, chickens, goats, fresh-picked berries & herbs. He & his helpers (formerly unemployed village women) initially hand-winnowed the beans in this far eastern outpost of artisanal chocolate. In the process, Domantas now likes to say “chocolate saved my life” in a saga both whimsical & surreal yet deadly serious, summed up as ‘shrewdly naïve’. (For details, see the Impact statement of this bar review.) |
