As always when you want to create a product of great quality, the simple rule is: simplicity! Dark chocolate "Cru Sauvage", fresh whole milk, a touch of cocoa powder, sugar cane white ... and here is a hot chocolate exceptionally dense, of great body and persistence. You can enjoy it in solitude (perhaps on your knees and head down in sign of reverence, as the great writer Alexandre Dumas father teaches us) for the Taliban in you or taste it in combination with our Crema di Grom gelato and whipped cream; hot chocolate is a cult product at Grom's.
CHOCOLATE "OCUMARE" - VENEZUELA
Always researching for the best ingredients, we believe that the ideal place for cacao is Venezuela: here, in the northern state of Aragua, we collaborate with Gian Luca Franzoni and Domori to look for the best lots of the Criollo bean variety (clones 61, 66 and 67), appreciated for giving an incredible feeling of strength and persistence, moderate acidity and complex aromas of jam, baking bread and dried fruit.
This fantastic cacao variety, fermented and then dried in the sun, has the peculiarity of containing only 20-25 beans per pod (the cacao tree fruit) of 1.4 grams average weight. The lower yields, smaller size of the bean and considerable more complex cultivation, however, gives us that rare combination of strength and elegance, which is the unique prerogative the Ocumare chocolate.
FRESH WHOLE MILK
We have chosen a high quality whole milk from Piedmont, in order to have it delivered every day to our laboratory. The quality controls on breeders and milkers are very strict, allowing for a gentler pasteurizing of the milk needed to keep its best qualities…the same qualities that you find every time you eat our gelato.
