Cacao Prieto produces bean-to-bar chocolate made fresh daily from the
finest organic, single origin Dominican Cacao and distills a line of
small batch, cacao-based liqueurs and rums. But, look closer and it
becomes clear that Cacao Prieto is a crucial meeting place of ideas, of
traditions, of dreams and technology. It is a place, finally, where the
creation of delicious chocolate and liquor resonates with an idealistic
sense of purpose stating that making one thing the right way might just
makes the world a better place.
Cacao Prieto was founded by Daniel Prieto Preston, an inventor and
aerospace engineer, whose family has been farming organic cacao and
sugar cane in the Dominican Republic for more than 100 years.
All Cacao Prieto products are sourced from organic cocoa beans from
our family’s 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. From pods to beans; from bars to bon
bons; from hard science to the ethereal joy of tasting high quality
chocolate, Cacao Prieto’s trailblazing methods link the best of the New
and Old Worlds to re-define the manufacture, the processing and, of
course, the pleasures of chocolate and chocolate based liqueurs and
rums.