Best Chocolate in the World 2025

The Best Chocolate of 2025 highlights the chocolate bars that defined the year through independent expert evaluation, exceptional craftsmanship, and international recognition.

This annual selection forms a core input into our long-term editorial archive and contributes directly to the evolving Top 100 Chocolates in the World ranking.

How the Best Chocolate of 2025 Is Selected

The Best Chocolate of 2025 is curated based on results and evaluations from the International Chocolate Awards, alongside focused editorial assessment.

Key considerations include:

  • Highest sensory scores achieved during the 2025 award cycle

  • Category leadership (dark, milk, white, drinking chocolate, filled bars)

  • Technical execution, balance, and flavor clarity

  • Consistency across tastings and competitions

Only chocolate bars from makers we actively work with — and can source, verify, and stand behind — are included.

Gold Winners — World’s Best Chocolate 2025

Each year, a very small number of chocolates rise above all others and receive Gold-level recognition at the world stage. These bars represent the highest level of contemporary chocolate craft.

🥇 Gold Winners 2025

🌍 World’s Best Dark Chocolate — Gold

Cacaosuyo (Peru)
El Ganso — Score: 91.6

A powerful and expressive dark chocolate celebrated for its depth, balance, and precision. El Ganso reflects exceptional control of fermentation and roasting, delivering a vivid sense of origin and structure.

🌍 World’s Best Flavoured Chocolate — Gold

Prague Chocolate Steiner & Kovarik (Czech Republic)
White Chocolate 40% with Asparagus — Score: 92.1

An innovative and technically brilliant flavoured chocolate, distinguished by its clarity, restraint, and harmony. This bar demonstrates how unconventional ingredients can be integrated with precision and elegance at the highest level of craft.

How This Page Relates to the Top 100 Chocolate Bars

This annual selection is foundational, not derivative.

  • The Best Chocolate of 2025 identifies standout bars of the year

  • These bars are evaluated alongside other years (2022–present)

  • The strongest performers contribute to the Top 100 Chocolate Bars master ranking

While the Top 100 is a fixed list of exactly 100 bars, yearly selections like this page are selective and reflect the actual distribution of excellence in a given year.

Explore the Best Chocolate of 2025 Collection

The Best Chocolate of 2025

80 and above indicates fine chocolate quality and scores above 90 suggest extraordinary quality and craft.

  1. Prague Chocolate Steiner & Kovarik (Czech Republic) – White Chocolate – White Chocolate 40% with Asparagus (Score 92.1)
  2. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – White Chocolate – Strawberry White (Score 91.7)
  3. Cacaosuyo (Peru) – Dark Chocolate – El Ganso (Score 91.6)
  4. Prophecy Chocolate (United States) – Chocolate with Fillings – Spicy Macambo (Score 91.3)
  5. Boho Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Philippines Kablon Farms 70% (Score 90.3)
  6. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – White Chocolate – Raspberry White (Score 90.3)
  7. Meybol Cacao (Germany) – Dark Chocolate – Vraem 72% (Score 90.2)
  8. Cacaosuyo (Peru) – Dark Chocolate – Piura Select (Score 90.1)
  9. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Caramelized Onion (Score 90.1)
  10. Cacaosuyo (Peru) – Dark Chocolate – Lakuna (Score 89.9)
  11. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Milk Chocolate – Classic Milk (Score 89.7)
  12. Duffy’s (United Kingdom) – Dark Chocolate – Nicaragua Amarillo 72% (Score 89.5)
  13. Argencove (Nicaragua) – Dark Chocolate – 92 Bar (Score 89.4)
  14. Cacaosuyo (Peru) – Dark Chocolate – Chuncho Cuzco (Score 89.4)
  15. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Asochivite with Maple (Score 89.4)
  16. Sleep Walk Chocolateria (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Oaxaca (Score 89.4)
  17. Vigdis Rosenkilde (Norway) – Dark Chocolate – Piura with Cacao Nibs 70% (Score 89.4)
  18. Chaleur B Chocolat (Canada) – Dark Chocolate – Tanzania 79% Organic (Score 89.3)
  19. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Sugar-Free Dark Chocolate – Special Reserve 100% (Score 89.3)
  20. Sleep Walk Chocolateria (United States) – Chocolate with Fillings – Miel y Chiltepe (Score 89.2)
  21. Duffy’s (United Kingdom) – Milk Chocolate – Honduras Mayan Red 61% (Score 89.1)
  22. Cacaosuyo (Peru) – Milk Chocolate – Piura Milk (Score 89.0)
  23. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Milk Chocolate – Oat Milk (Score 89.0)
  24. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – Dark Chocolate – Kisinga 70% (Score 88.8)
  25. Feliu Chocolate (Mexico) – Dark Chocolate – Soconusco 70% (Score 88.7)
  26. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Esmeraldas (Score 88.6)
  27. Argencove (Nicaragua) – Dark Chocolate – Apoyo 70% (Score 88.5)
  28. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Brown Butter (Score 88.5)
  29. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – White Chocolate – Blackberry White (Score 88.5)
  30. Meybol Cacao (Germany) – Dark Chocolate – Solo Kakao 90% (Score 88.5)
  31. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Herbaceous Green Sichuan (Score 88.4)
  32. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Putnam Rye Whiskey (Score 88.4)
  33. Argencove (Nicaragua) – Dark Chocolate – Batch 18 80% (Score 88.1)
  34. Argencove (Nicaragua) – Dark Chocolate – Caramelized Cacao Nibs (Score 88.1)
  35. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Spiced Winter Maple (Score 88.1)
  36. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Asochivite (Score 88.1)
  37. SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Dark Chocolate – Aged with Idaho 7 Hops (Score 88.1)
  38. Argencove (Nicaragua) – Dark Chocolate – Cocibolca 70% (Score 87.9)
  39. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Coffee Crunch (Score 87.9)
  40. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Ucayali (Score 87.9)
  41. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – Milk Chocolate – Earl Grey Tea (Score 87.8)
  42. SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Drinking Chocolate – Taiwan Pingtung 70% (Score 87.7)
  43. SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Drinking Chocolate – Thailand 70% (Score 87.7)
  44. Vigdis Rosenkilde (Norway) – Dark Chocolate – Écharate 80% (Score 87.7)
  45. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – Dark Chocolate – Tupi 100% (Score 87.6)
  46. Prophecy Chocolate (United States) – Chocolate with Fillings – Umami Macambo (Score 91.3)
  48. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – El Carmen (Score 87.4)
  49. Feliu Chocolate (Mexico) – Milk Chocolate – Leche y Café 58% (Score 87.3)
  50. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – Milk Chocolate – Goat’s Milk (Score 87.2)
  51. Meybol Cacao (Germany) – Dark Chocolate – Chuncho Collection No. 5 (Score 87.1)
  52. Sleep Walk Chocolateria (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Mole (Score 87.1)
  53. SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Dark Chocolate – Peru Chuncho 72% (Score 87.1)
  54. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Drinking Chocolate – Almendra Blanca Hot Cocoa (Score 87.0)
  55. Prophecy Chocolate (United States) – Chocolate with Fillings – Sweet Macambo Beans (Score 87.0)
  56. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – White Chocolate – Lait de Chèvre (Score 86.7)
  57. Duffy’s (United Kingdom) – Dark Chocolate – Honduras Indio Rojo 72% (Score 86.5)
  58. Allo Simonne (Canada) – Drinking Chocolate – Chocolat Chaud 61% à l’Érable & Tonka (Score 86.3)
  59. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – Dark Chocolate – Single Malt (Score 86.3)
  60. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Drinking Chocolate – El Carmen Hot Cocoa (Score 86.2)
  61. Boho Chocolate (United States) – White Chocolate – White Chocolate with Orange & Olive Oil (Score 86.1)
  62. Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Dark Chocolate – Lawley’s Rum (Score 86.1)
  63. Kasama Chocolate (Canada) – White Chocolate – Calamansi White Chocolate (Score 86.0)
  64. Vigdis Rosenkilde (Norway) – Milk Chocolate – Dark Milk 60% (Score 85.8)
  65. Allo Simonne (Canada) – Chocolate with Fillings – Amande, Lavande et Pavot (Score 85.7)
  66. Allo Simonne (Canada) – Chocolate with Fillings – Amande, Ananas, Coco (Score 85.5)

Why the Best Chocolate of 2025 Matters

Chocolate quality evolves year to year. New harvests, fermentation techniques, and maker philosophies mean that excellence is never static.

This guide captures the state of the art in chocolate for 2025, offering a snapshot of the bars that defined the year according to independent expert evaluation and long-term editorial curation.

A Living Annual Record

This page may be updated as:

  • Late-season award results are announced

  • Availability changes

  • Additional Top 100–level bars from 2025 are confirmed

It is designed to remain accurate, transparent, and useful over time.

This selection reflects our curated archive and does not claim to represent every award-winning chocolate produced in 2025.