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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.
Chocolates
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.
Farm
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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Cacao Prieto and Slow Food NYC team up!
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Valentine’s Day Pop-up Store
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The Farm Machinery Has Arrived!
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Chocolate Bark Bars
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How Coralina Got Its Name
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First Run of the Still!
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Our Rum
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Water From The Widow Jane Mine Delivered
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Aerospace Engineer Turns to Artisanal Chocolate
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HappyDoll
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Cacao Prieto and Slow Food NYC team up!
On February 16th Slow Food NYC will host a charitable Valentine’s dinner at BK’s fabulous iCi restaurant. Cacao Prieto will be providing all of the chocolate for the stunning meal prepared by chef Nate Cortland. The event starts at 6:30pm
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Valentine’s Day Pop-up Store
On February 10th we are opening a Valentine’s Day pop-up store in SoHo, at E.R. Butler & Co’s showroom. Located at 55 Prince Street, our pop-up store will be open February 10-14, from 11am-8pm. We will be selling an assortment of bonbon boxes, our signature bark bars, and our new nut & cacao spread. Some [...]
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The Farm Machinery Has Arrived!
Nothing is as cool as giant machinery. It just gets our imagination running full speed. We just purchased a whole new group of farm machines for Coralina Farms and have shipped them all to the Dominican Republic where they will be used for our 2000 hectare expansion.
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Chocolate Bark Bars
Excquisite packaging includes postcards of the Prieto family history with illustrations by Brooklyn artist Sophie Blackall.
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How Coralina Got Its Name
Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic was the first city founded in the New World by the Spanish. Catedral de Santa María la Menor was the first Church to be built there, construction starting in 1514 and it is now the oldest extant church in the Americas.
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First Run of the Still!
Our 1000 liter still is up and running ! After months of hard work we finally completed the installation of our custom still in Brooklyn. It is one of the largest in New York! In fact we are the first and only licensed rum distillery in NYC since prohibition! After all that work, we were [...]
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Our Rum
Made from heirloom varietals of organic Dominican cacao and organic sugar cane.
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Water From The Widow Jane Mine Delivered
It turns out that building a great city and distilling a great whiskey are both dependent on the same thing — limestone. For a city, limestone is the foundation from which great structures soar. For great whiskey you need pure spring water enriched by limestone.
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Aerospace Engineer Turns to Artisanal Chocolate
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Cali Carlin reports on Dan Preston, a former aeronautical engineer who now makes artisanal chocolate and rum in Brooklyn. In 2009, Preston sold Atair Aerospace, his $22 million business that designed parachutes for the military. He then founded Cacao Holdings and began selling cacao-based rum through a company called Cacao [...]
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HappyDoll
In December 2011, we hosted a party for the happy doll charity.
