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2025 Dark Chocolate Brand Rankings

【2025 Dark Chocolate Brand Ranking】Relying on the big data of the whole network, dark chocolate brands selected according to dark chocolate brand awareness, brand strength, word-of-mouth evaluation and sales popularity (in no particular order): Amedei, Akesson, Pierre Marcolini, Michel Cluizel, Pump Street Bakery, Domori Domori, Bonnat, Valrhona, Valrhona, Lost, Godiva, Lindt, Guylian, if you're looking for dark chocolate, what's the best brand? This list of dark chocolate brands is for your reference only.

  • TOP.1 Amedei

    Amedei Italy

    Recommended products: Porcelana 70%, Toscano balck 70%, Toscano balck 63%, 9 Tuscany 75% Amedei is both expensive and delicious. In 1990, a brother and sister started their business in a small town in the Tuscany region of Italy, where they spent decades running Amedei into one of the world's best-known boutique chocolate brands. A rising star, Amedei conquers diners' taste buds with its unique delicate taste and complex aromas, and despite its high price tag, it still offers great value for money. In order to ensure the quality of the products, Amedei has a firm grasp of the entire process of each dark chocolate from processing to packaging, setting the benchmark for the bean-to-bar chocolate production model in the industry. Amedei excels in the selection of cocoa beans, and its main products are made from the rarest and finest cocoa beans. Among the three main cocoa varieties, Criollo is fragile in nature, difficult to withstand insect infestation due to its small fruit and poor adaptability, and produces the least yield, but at the same time has a complex aroma and just the right amount of acidity.

    1
    Score
    88
    popularity
    12653
  • TOP.2 Akesson

    Akesson Sweden

    Recommended products: Criollo 100% Madagascar, Criollo 75% Madagascar The father of Akesson's founder, a former Swedish diplomat who settled in Madagascar, owned a plot of land to grow cocoa trees, which was the starting point for Akesson chocolate. Madagascar is one of the best producers of cocoa beans, and the geographical conditions are unique, and the beans produce rich aromas and moderate fruit acids enough to awaken the taste buds. Today, Akesson is a rising star in the dark chocolate world, with plantations in Brazil, Indonesia and other regions, and is one of the few bean-to-bar chocolatiers capable of controlling the cocoa bean picking process. Akesson's self-positioning and strict selection criteria are unique in the industry, insisting on using only 8 varieties of cocoa beans for production, and the product standard has always been first-class, and many chocolates have won the highest honors such as Great Taste and AOC Gold Medal, which has impressed the industry. The presence of Criollo cocoa beans from Madagascar neutralizes the 100% bitterness of Criollo with its presence of fruit acids, and the 120 mm slices are used.

    2
    Score
    86
    popularity
    15821
  • TOP.3 Pierre Marcolini

    Pierre Marcolini Belgium

    Recommended products: Pierre Marcolini Handmade Sugar-Free 78%, Pierre Marcolini Crioro 72%, Pierre Marcolini Handmade Bitter Black Bars 85% Pierre Marcolini is often dubbed the Louis Vuitton of chocolate, and it is true. Belgium is famous for its exquisite chocolate, Belgian chocolatier Pierre Marcolini won the world's first dessert competition in his 30s, and then founded the brand under his own name. The variety of products varies. The cocoa beans used to make Pierre Marcolini's chocolates are carefully selected, and the founders personally select the best cocoa beans from Brazil, Ghana, Madagascar, Venezuela and other regions, carefully selecting the raw materials from the initial stage, and tirelessly discovering new flavors. In the processing phase, Pierre Marcolini uses a rich and imaginative set of ingredients,...

    3
    Score
    85
    popularity
    5840
  • TOP.4 Michel Cluizel

    Michel Cluizel France

    Recommended products: NOIR 72% Dark Chocolate, Michel Cluizel 85% Dark Chocolate, Michel Cluizel 99% In the highly competitive world of French confectionery, Michel Cluizel, who has been in the market for three generations, has an extraordinary reputation as the representative of France's top chocolate brands. Michel Cluizel is one of the few manufacturers to have full control over the dark chocolate production process, and the family owns several cocoa bean plantations in Madagascar, Venezuela, Papua New Guinea and other places, which is the key to the brand's reputation. The two are used as the main ingredients and then combined with selected ingredients to create a delicious piece of black chocolate. The flavonoids contained in dark chocolate are used as antioxidants, and vegetable oils and soy lecithin are completely eliminated in the processing, and the authentic flavor of cocoa butter is completely retained.

    4
    Score
    85
    popularity
    16512
  • TOP.5 Pump Street Bakery

    Pump Street Bakery United Kingdom

    Recommended products: 70% dark chocolate, 66% yeast sea salt dark chocolate Under the camouflage of Pump Street Bakery's unique and beautiful packaging, there may be diners who mistakenly think that they are about to taste bread rather than chocolate. The breadbag-like exterior was intentionally designed by Pump Street Bakery, and Wallpaper even awarded a design award for the ingenuity. In fact, Pump Street Bakery is a bakery in Suffolk in the east of England, and in addition to being known for its sourdough bread flavours, it has also made a name for itself in recent years for its award-winning handcrafted chocolates. Pump Street Bakery adheres to the bean-to-bar model of chocolate production, sourcing the best cocoa beans around the world, and working with its plantations in Venezuela, Ecuador, Madagascar, Grenada, Honduras and Jamaica are all star producing regions. Grenada is located at the southernmost tip of the Caribbean archipelago.

    5
    Score
    84
    popularity
    14922
  • TOP.6 Domori Domori

    Domori Domori Italy

    Recommended products: 70% Criolo, 90% Criolo Founded in the historic city of Turin, Domori's dedication to the study of Criollo cocoa beans is often reminiscent of two of its other industry colleagues, Amedei and Akesson, both of whom are leaders in the chocolate industry, and the Criollo beans are considered to be the highest quality cocoa beans. As the ingredient of choice for high-end dark chocolate, Criollo is able to exulate a unique and tranquil floral tea and nutty aroma and is produced in very small quantities, accounting for only 5% of the total cocoa beans produced globally each year. That's why Domori is known for its high price tags, costing hundreds of dollars to taste a 25-gram bite of the flavor. In order to make the appearance hit diners at first sight, manufacturers often go to great lengths with their packaging and exteriors, ranging from the ingenuity of Pump Street Bakery to the rich and avant-garde of Michel Cluizel, while Domori's exterior is unobtrusive and maintains an elegant retro style. Domori's dark chocolate can be divided into two main categories: products made with Criollo beans and products made with Trinitario beans. Domori was one of the first to try to make 100% pure black chocolate...

    6
    Score
    83
    popularity
    18792
  • TOP.7 Bonnat

    Bonnat France

    Recommended product: 75% dark chocolate Puerto cabello As one of the oldest brands in France, the founder of Puerto cabello opened his first boutique chocolate shop in 1883. Bonet was one of the first to take Grands crus, the finest single estate chocolate, to the next level. Today, Bonnat's sales network spans the globe and is backed by four generations of hard work. In terms of packaging, Bonnat continues to be unpretentious, with neat chocolate bars and no over-embellishment. Even after 100 years, Bonnat has adhered to some of the traditional ways of making chocolate, and even the first chocolate sorter, purchased in 1883, was still in use until 2000, and this wonderful flavor has attracted countless people from generation to generation, and former US President John F. Kennedy's wife is also a loyal fan of Bonnat. In recent years, Bonet has won several AOC Gold Awards. Among the many acclaimed products of Bonnate, Bonnat's 100% pure dark chocolate is a rich flavor that allows people to step out of their comfort zone and embrace the intense taste that can only be given by 100% purity and bitterness, although this pure...

    7
    Score
    83
    popularity
    15527
  • TOP.8 Valrhona

    Valrhona France

    Recommended product: Gran Coix Estate 2010 Vintage 64% Since 1922, Valrhona has been an important representative of French chocolate, known for its delicate and smooth mouthfeel, solid and full-bodied flavors, whether it is the rich aroma of cocoa, the duet of slightly bitter and acidic, or the light and long aftertaste that lingers between the lips and teeth. Valrhona has 80 cocoa plantations in 22 countries, including Venezuela, Ghana and Ecuador, and has a vast amount of cocoa ingredients at its disposal that no other brand can match. In 2000, Valrhona set the benchmark by creatively selecting the finest ingredients for the Best Cocoa Estate of the Year to create a limited edition of fine chocolates, naming them after the vintage and the estate. Valrhona also discovered a sub-category of the Creolo bean, Chuao bean, which is the best of the best in cocoa beans and has had a profound impact on the entire industry, and it is Chuao beans that have created another famous chocolate brand, Amedei. ...

    8
    Score
    82
    popularity
    5838
  • TOP.9 Lost

    Lost France

    Recommended products: Madagascar 100%, Chuao Dark Chocolate 75% Puaros, which started with praline cookies, is well-known in the dessert world, and its wide range of single-source chocolates from different regions has added to the brand awareness of this long-established confectionery manufacturer. Puarous has direct cooperation agreements with many well-known cocoa bean producing regions around the world, ensuring the quality of the products at the processing stage. In Madagascar, Puaros has its own plantation, which produces a blend of Criollo and Trinitario beans, which combine fresh and pleasant fruit acids with complex tobacco aromas, and is a world-renowned source of cocoa beans. Made from Criollo beans from Madagascar, the 100% black flavor shows Puaros's confidence in the selection of cocoa beans. The taste is delicate and mellow, with a heavy sense of bitterness, gently broken, a variety of floral fragrances waft out, and there is a clear mint mouth after the mouth. Among the several sub-categories of Criollo beans, the most well-known is the Chuao bean, a high-quality bean variety produced in Venezuela, which is produced by another well-known French bean...

    9
    Score
    81
    popularity
    17074
  • TOP.10 Godiva

    Godiva Belgium

    Recommended product: G series chocolate chips Many people's main impression of Belgium comes from the delicious chocolate that the country is known for all over the world. Among Belgium's star-studded chocolate brands, Godiva is undoubtedly one of them. Belgium was one of the first countries in the world to use ultra-fine grinding techniques to process cocoa beans, which gives its products a delicate and creamy mouthfeel. Belgium is best known for its Praline, which has a wide variety of nuts and creams on the outside with a tempered chocolate exterior and a wide variety of fillings. Godiva's pralines are world-renowned, with the famous G series of chocolate chips containing 6 flavours, including a dark chocolate made from Mexican cocoa beans with a cocoa content of 68%, which is a very pleasant taste even for first-time dark chocolate tasters. Godiva has a variety of purchase channels, has opened official flagship stores on multiple domestic e-commerce platforms, and has offline stores in many cities in China, providing an easy and convenient choice for consumers who are interested in trying it. ...

    10
    Score
    78
    popularity
    16950
  • TOP.11 Lindt

    Lindt Switzerland

    Recommended product: EXCELLENCE 70% Lindt is one of the most well-known high-end chocolate brands in China, founded in 1845, after a century of development, Lindt has sold its products to more than 100 countries and regions around the world, is a very large multinational group. The EXCELLENCE range is the flagship product of Lindt dark chocolate, of which EXCELLENCE 70% was the first to indicate the cocoa content on the chocolate packaging, which created a trend in the industry, and won the title of the best quality dark chocolate at the Paris Chocolate Fair in 2006 and 2009. The range includes a range of dark chocolates in a variety of concentrations, ranging from 50% row dark chocolate for beginners to 99% pure chocolates with a pronounced bitterness and rich and delicate flavor, each of which retains the mellow flavor of the cocoa bean itself and is moderately flavoured for a delicate and soft taste. Among the many boutique chocolate brands, Lindt has a more prominent cost-effective advantage, and attaches great importance to expanding the Chinese market, and has set up flagship stores on a number of mainstream e-commerce platforms, so that consumers can easily buy related products. ...

    11
    Score
    76
    popularity
    11356
  • TOP.12 Guylian Gillian

    Guylian Gillian Belgium

    Recommended product: 72% Dark Chocolate Bars It is difficult for a chocolate brand to survive the fierce competition in the Belgian chocolate world, let alone to receive such a prestigious honor as the Belgian Royal Gold Medal, which is the recipient of Gillian. As one of Belgium's largest producers of boxed chocolate, Gillian offers consumers a wide range of options over dark chocolate, with products exported to more than 130 countries around the world, including almost all types of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, assorted pralines and truffles, which has reduced its focus to a certain extent. Gillian's AMBAO logo is the only pure cocoa butter logo recognized by the European Union, and the dark chocolate made from selected West African cocoa beans as a raw material also enjoys a high reputation among domestic chocolate lovers. Compared with most of the brands on the list, Geely Lotus has avoided the embarrassing problem of difficulty in purchasing, and has officially entered the Chinese market, with official flagship stores on many mainstream e-commerce platforms. ...

    12
    Score
    75
    popularity
    6773
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  • 1 18792 Domori Domori

    Domori Domori

    Recommended products: 70% Criolo, 90% Criolo Founded in the historic city of Turin, Domori's dedication to the study of Criollo cocoa beans is often reminiscent of two of its other industry colleagues, Amedei and Akesson, who are leaders in the chocolate industry

  • 2 17074 Lost

    Lost

    Recommended products: Madagascar 100%, Chuao Dark Chocolate 75% Puarous, which started with praline cookies, has a reputation in the dessert world, and its wide range of single-source chocolates from different regions has added to the brand awareness of this long-established pastry manufacturer

  • 3 16950 Godiva

    Godiva

    Recommended product: G series chocolate chips Many people's main impression of Belgium comes from the delicious chocolate that the country is known for all over the world. Among Belgium's star-studded chocolate brands, Godiva is undoubtedly one of them. Belgium is the most important in the world

  • 4 16512 Michel Cluizel

    Michel Cluizel

    Recommended products: NOIR 72% Dark Chocolate, Michel Cluizel 85% Dark Chocolate, Michel Cluizel 99% In the highly competitive world of French confectionery, Michel Cluizel, who has been in the market for three generations, has an extraordinary reputation as the representative of France's top chocolate brands. Michel Cluizel is less

  • 5 15821 Akesson

    Akesson

    Recommended products: Criollo 100% Madagascar, Criollo 75% Madagascar The father of Akesson's founder, a former Swedish diplomat who settled in Madagascar, owned a plot of land to grow cocoa trees, and this is how Akesson chocolate began

  • 6 15527 Bonnat

    Bonnat

    Recommended product: 75% dark chocolate Puerto cabello As one of the oldest brands in France, the founder of Puerto cabello opened his first boutique chocolate shop in 1883. Bonet was one of the first to bring Grands crus chocolate, the finest single estate chocolate, to the table

  • 7 14922 Pump Street Bakery

    Pump Street Bakery

    Recommended products: 70% dark chocolate, 66% yeast sea salt dark chocolate Under the camouflage of Pump Street Bakery's unique and beautiful packaging, there may be diners who mistakenly think that they are about to taste bread rather than chocolate. The exterior that resembles a bread bag is actually a Pump Street Bak

  • 8 12653 Amedei

    Amedei

    Recommended products: Porcelana 70%, Toscano balck 70%, Toscano balck 63%, 9 Tuscany 75% Amedei is both expensive and delicious. In 1990, a brother and sister started their business in a small town in Tuscany, Italy, which has a rich civilization.

  • 9 11356 Lindt

    Lindt

    Recommended product: EXCELLENCE 70% Lindt is one of the most well-known high-end chocolate brands in China, founded in 1845, after a century of development, Lindt has sold its products to more than 100 countries and regions around the world, is a very large multinational group

  • 10 6773 Guylian Gillian

    Guylian Gillian

    Recommended product: 72% Dark Chocolate Bars It is difficult for a chocolate brand to survive the fierce competition in the Belgian chocolate world, let alone to receive the highest accolade of the Belgian Royal Gold Medal, and Gillian is

  • 11 5840 Pierre Marcolini

    Pierre Marcolini

    Recommended products: Pierre Marcolini Handmade Sugar-Free 78%, Pierre Marcolini Crioro 72%, Pierre Marcolini Handmade Bitter Black Bars 85% Pierre Marcolini is often dubbed the Louis Vuitton of chocolate, and it is true. Belgium is famous for its fine chocolate

  • 12 5838 Valrhona

    Valrhona

    Recommended product: Gran Coix 2010 64% Since 1922, Valrhona has been an important representative of French chocolate, known for its delicate and smooth palate, solid and full flavor, whether it is a rich aroma of cocoa, a duet of slightly bitter and fruity acidity, or an aftertaste

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