{"id":69148,"date":"2026-08-08T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enter.chocolateawards.com\/?p=69148"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:13:24","slug":"americas-latin-america-the-caribbean-bean-to-bar-and-craft-chocolatier-competition-2026-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enter.chocolateawards.com\/de\/competitions\/americas\/americas-latin-america-the-caribbean-bean-to-bar-and-craft-chocolatier-competition-2026-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Americas – Latin America & the Caribbean Bean-to-Bar and Craft Chocolatier Competition 2026 – Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The International Chocolate Awards is pleased to announce the Winners of the 2026 Americas – Latin America & the Caribbean Bean-to-Bar and Craft Chocolatier Competition<\/strong>, which was judged remotely during Summer 2026 alongside the Americas – USA<\/strong>\u00a0Bean-to-Bar and Craft Chocolatier<\/strong>\u00a0competition.<\/p>

Online Winners Presentation event – early September, 2026<\/h4>

Join us for a special online event featuring chats, interviews, videos and features with our winners, judges and sponsors in September. Details of the event will be announced soon.<\/p>

This competition focuses on fine, craft and micro-batch chocolate makers who work directly from cacao beans to produce plain\/origin and flavoured chocolate bars and craft chocolatiers making filled chocolates, drag\u00e9es and spreads from the Latin America & the Caribbean region.<\/p>

Winners will go through to the World Final in October 2026.\u00a0<\/p>

Peruvians celebrated their own innovative work in the cacao and chocolate worlds in their dedicated competition, which was announced on July 18 in Lima<\/a>.<\/p>

Judges<\/h3>

The judging panel<\/a> for this competition included our regular Americas judges, along with many of our IICCT alumni, other specialists from the local area and members of our international Grand Jury panel.<\/p>

All judging was anonymised, including at the Grand Jury final session, where Golds, Silver and Bronze prizes were awarded by private voting according to the Grand Jury rules.\u00a0Grand Jury Finalists<\/strong> are listed here<\/a>.<\/p>

All Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in this competition are eligible to enter the World Final in October 2026.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Diamond Custom Machines - Judging shipping partner<\/h3>

Big thanks to DCM for all their help getting the judging samples out to our judges in a timely manner. Find out more about DCM here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prizes<\/h3>

The winners of the 2026 Americas – Latin America & the Caribbean Bean-to-Bar and Craft Chocolatier Competition are:<\/p>