Nugali Chocolates Factory Tour & Tasting in South Brazil

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Duration20m–1h

Mobile ticketAccepted

Inside a Brazilian Chocolate Factory: From Bean to Bar in One Morning

You walk through a working cocoa greenhouse, follow chocolate from roasted beans through conching, tempering and packaging on the factory floor, and taste multiple award-winning flavors at the end. The tour takes a couple of hours, runs daily from 9am to 6pm, and is fully wheelchair accessible. Book the morning session if you want to see the production lines running at full speed.

20m–1h

Step-by-step itinerary

Nugali chocolate factory tour

Visit greenhouse with cocoa and vanilla
Observe cocoa roasting process
Watch conching and refining stages
See tempering, molding, and packaging
Taste award-winning chocolate flavors
Learn about sustainability actions

The Experience

Cocoa pods hang heavy on the trees inside a greenhouse built the old half-timbered way, and the air smells like earth and vanilla. This is where the Nugali chocolates factory tour starts — not with a sales pitch, but with the actual plants that make the chocolate. You walk through rows of cocoa and vanilla, and your guide points out the pods you'll see roasted and processed just steps away on the factory floor. It's the kind of detail that makes the whole operation click into place: you're not reading about chocolate-making, you're standing where it happens.

The tour moves through the real manufacturing stages in sequence. You see cocoa beans arrive and get roasted — the smell hits you first, then the sound of the machines. Then comes the conching and refining, where the chocolate gets its texture and smoothness. The tempering and molding happens next, and by the time you reach the packaging line, you've watched something raw turn into the finished product you'd buy in a shop. It takes a couple of hours to move through all of it, and the pace is unhurried enough that you can actually absorb what's happening instead of just moving past it.

The tasting comes at the end, and it's not a tiny sample cup — you taste freely across the range of award-winning flavors Nugali makes. The chocolate is still warm from the factory, which changes how it tastes. You also learn about the sustainability practices built into the operation, which matters if you care about where your chocolate comes from. The whole experience is wheelchair accessible, and the greenhouse and factory floors are flat and easy to navigate, so it works for people with different mobility needs.

The factory is open every day from 9am to 6pm, with the last session starting at 5:50pm. If you're visiting around the end of the year, check the holiday hours — they close on Christmas and New Year's Day, and run shortened hours on December 24 and 31. It's the kind of tour that works best if you go in the morning, when the factory is in full production and the chocolate is still moving through the lines.

What’s included

Your visit includes access to the cocoa and vanilla greenhouse, a guided walk through all manufacturing stages (roasting, conching, refining, tempering, molding and packaging), and free tasting of Nugali's award-winning chocolate flavors.
You'll also learn about the factory's sustainability practices.
The tour is wheelchair accessible throughout, and strollers are welcome.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendly

Operated by Tour Nugali Chocolates - Fábrica

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to understand how chocolate actually gets made and taste the product fresh from the factory floor, without arranging transport or paying separately for samples — the tour bundles the whole process into one morning visit.