Liquor

Distilled and aged in our factory in Red Hook Brooklyn, Cacao Prieto produces a variety of liqueurs and rums all made from organic Dominican sugar cane and cacao beans from Cacao Prieto’s family orchard in the Dominican Republic. All our spirits are distilled from organic Dominican Cacao fruit, Cacao beans and organic sugar cane. [...]

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Chocolates

Beans to Bar chocolate for sale. Bonbon flavors include coconut, honey, caramel, almond, rum, anise, and classic dark.

Cacao Prieto produces beans-to-bar chocolate made fresh daily from the finest single origin Dominican cacao from our family farm and organic Dominican sugar cane. The result is a revelation — melding the lingering complexity of the finest burgundy with the lush textures and deep satisfaction which define the world’s great chocolates.

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Farm

Raw cacao beans inside their fruit, on top of a bed of drying fermented beans.

Coralina Farms is the 100% organic cacao plantation owned by the Prieto family who has been harvesting cacao in the Dominican Republic for over 100 years. Spanning over 2000 hectares in the Nagua region of the Dominican Republic, Coralina Farms produces the cacao used for Cacao Prieto chocolate and our chocolate based rums and liqueurs. Coralina is also the center for our ongoing investigations [...]

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Our Store

Visit our Red Hook Factory Retail location!
We are open Tues-Fri from 11-6, and Sat-Sun 11-7.

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“Raised Spirits” at Cacao Prieto

The weekend has passed, but what a fun weekend! After a fantastic evening at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic opening gala on Friday, I headed on over to my first MCC event on Saturday afternoon, the Hands-On Distilling Workshop: The Art and Science of Distilling. The seminar was held at Cacao Prieto in the Red Hook part [...]

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Heirloom Scarlet Barley

Our heirloom scarlet barley in process of malting. It is done germinating and is now being transferred to our dehydrator.

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Our New Water Truck!

Our new water truck arrived today!

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Ampoules

Opening an ampoule.

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The Art & Science of Distilling Workshop

As part of The Manhattan Cocktail Classic we are offering a Hands-On Distilling Workshop – The Art & Science of Distilling on Saturday May 12, 2012 at 1:30 pm, only a few tickets are still available. Hurry up!

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72% Dark Criollo Bars

We are happy to introduce our new 72% Criollo Dark Chocolate Bars, unique in flavor and taste, a great addition to our chocolate collection. Available only at our Factory Retail Store.

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Cacao Prieto Rum Products Now Available For Sale Online at AstorWines.com

We are proud to offer our liquors for sale online, through our distributor Astor Wines & Spirits. Featured as an Astor Exclusive on Tasting Notes NYC, wine consultant and manager Nima A writes: “The balance, authenticity, and flavors are exceptional and the critics are already raving, this stuff is available in limited quantities. A breath [...]

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Brooklyn chocolatier has sweet spot for Dominican Republic.

“There’s an expression in chocolate: Every step is the most important step” By Ana Sofia Pelaez / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Click Here to read this article as a PDF. Daniel Prieto Preston, an aerospace engineer and inventor, started and sold a company that specialized in neon sign electrodes, then developed satellite guided parachutes used by the [...]

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Los Prieto, una familia unida por el cacao

Written By: Silvina Sterin Pensel para EDLP | El Diario Click Here to read this article as a PDF. Muchos en el vecindario lo tildan de héroe; una suerte de redentor que le cambió la cara a esta zona de Brooklyn donde una enorme construcción en la esquina de las calles Conover y Coffey permaneció [...]

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Gastronomics: Building a Megabusiness From the Ground Up (Literally)

By: Felix Salmon, from newyork.grubstreet.com Click Here to read this article as a PDF. The food business has even more startups than the tech business: Every new restaurant, coffee cart, farm, dairy, and butcher shop is a story of micro-entrepreneurship. (In the case of restaurateurs who think very small, the advantages are clear.) The model is pretty [...]

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