New Zealand Chocolate Brands & Makers
Of the 10 New Zealand chocolate brands and makers on Chof, the three whose top bar has the highest Chof Score are Foundry, Lucid Chocolatier and AO Cacao.
What is New Zealand chocolate making known for?
New Zealand has a small craft chocolate scene, and its bars score highly on Chof. Where most countries import Latin American cacao, New Zealand makers use beans from the Pacific: the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Samoa, alongside Peru.
New Zealand's maker scene is small, and its bars rank among the higher-scoring on Chof. It is almost entirely bean-to-bar.
New Zealand makers draw heavily on Pacific cacao, from the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Samoa, origins that are uncommon elsewhere in the catalogue, alongside Peruvian beans.
New Zealand chocolate on Chof
What the catalogue shows for makers based in New Zealand.
Where New Zealand makers source cacao
Median across the 81 scored bars from makers based in New Zealand. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste. How Chof Score works.
New Zealand chocolate bars
The highest Chof Scores among bars with a photo from makers based in New Zealand. Open a bar for its score breakdown.
Anamalai Estate 100%
Piura White 82% Dark
Maranon 100%
Lucid Labs CAFÉ 62% Coffee Infusion
Korosim Microlots Solomon 70%
Platanal Bajo 72%
Semuliki Forest 90%
Bellavista 76% Dark
Bars with awards
30 bars from makers based in New Zealand have award results on Chof. Showing the 12 with the newest results. How Chof lists awards
Based in New Zealand
Lucid Chocolatier
Coromandel Chocolate
Hogarth
Foundry
Solomons Gold
AO Cacao
Baron Hasselhoff's
Whittaker's
Arabello
Wellington Chocolate Factory
Frequently asked about chocolate makers in New Zealand
What is New Zealand chocolate known for?
A small, high-scoring bean-to-bar scene with a strong Pacific focus. New Zealand makers stand out for using Oceania cacao, from the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Samoa, alongside Peru, where most countries rely on Latin American beans.
Where do New Zealand makers get their cacao?
Mostly from the Pacific (the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Samoa), along with Peruvian cacao. New Zealand does not grow cacao itself, so all of it is imported.
What are the best New Zealand chocolate brands?
Chof lists 10 New Zealand chocolate makers and brands. Ranked by the best Chof Score among each maker's published bars, the top three in New Zealand are Foundry for its Anamalai Estate 100%, Lucid Chocolatier for its Maranon 100% and AO Cacao for its Milne Bay 70%. Chof Score rates what a maker discloses about a bar: how precisely the origin is named, how clean the ingredient list is, and how much of the fermenting, drying and roasting is documented.
How many chocolate makers in New Zealand are listed on Chof?
Chof currently lists 10 chocolate makers based in New Zealand.
Are there any bean-to-bar chocolate makers in New Zealand?
Yes. 8 of the 10 makers listed in New Zealand on Chof work bean-to-bar.
What is the median Chof Score for New Zealand chocolate?
Across the 81 scored New Zealand bars on Chof, the median Chof Score is 85 out of 100, and the most common maker type is bean-to-bar. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste.
Where can I find New Zealand cacao on Chof?
Bean origin (where the cacao is grown) and maker country (where the chocolate is made) are different things. New Zealand is a chocolate-making country rather than a cacao-growing origin, so Chof has no New Zealand cacao origin page. To browse chocolate by cacao origin, open the cacao origins index on Chof.
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Scan a New Zealand bar and track what you taste
Open Chof while a New Zealand bar is in your hand to log your tasting, save the maker, and compare it with related bars.
