Cacao Prieto was founded by Daniel Prieto Preston, an inventor and
aerospace engineer, whose family has been farming organic cacao in the
Dominican Republic for more than 100 years. The Prieto family owns
Coralina Farms which provides all of the cacao for Cacao Prieto’s
chocolates and spirits. Coralina Farms is also the center for
long-ranging experiments in self-sustainable and organic farming methods
and the repository and preservation center for Dominican Cacao
biodiversity.
Cacao Prieto products are sourced from organic cacao beans from
Coralina farms and organic sugars from the Dominican Republic — in this
way Cacao Prieto is now one of the very few chocolate companies in the
world that is completely vertically integrated from the farm to the
finished product. Cacao Prieto produces a line of fine chocolate bars in
a variety of cocoa percentages and styles and a line of all-natural
bonbons in wondrous flavors. Cacao Prieto also produces a variety of
cacao-based rums and liqueurs whose unique flavors are derived from the
cacao fermentation process itself.
100% organic, 100% passionately made in house from pods to beans;
from bars to bonbons; from hard science to the ethereal joy of tasting
high quality chocolate, Cacao Prieto aims to link the best of the New
and Old Worlds to re-define the manufacture, processing and,of course,
the pleasures of chocolate and chocolate based liqueurs and rums.