Peruvian Chocolate Makers & Brands
10 Peruvian chocolate makers and craft chocolate brands based in Peru, with cocoa percentage, origin and tasting notes where Chof has them.
Looking for chocolate made with cacao from Peru? See the Peru cacao origin page.
What is Peruvian chocolate making known for?
Peru is unusual: it is both a major cacao origin and home to makers who turn that cacao into bars, often on the same land. Most Peruvian makers on Chof are tree-to-bar, growing and making from their own Peruvian cacao, and their bars are among the highest-scoring of any country in the catalogue.
Where most countries import their beans, Peru makes chocolate from cacao grown at home, and frequently by the very people who grow it. That tree-to-bar model, controlling everything from the living tree to the finished bar, is more common among Peruvian makers than almost anywhere, and it shows in both traceability and quality.
Peruvian bars score at the top end of the catalogue, helped by the country's extraordinary cacao diversity, from floral northern beans to mellow Amazonian ones. Because Peru is also one of Chof's richest cacao origins, the maker scene and the origin story are two sides of the same thing; you can explore the beans themselves on the Peru origin page.
Peruvian chocolate on Chof
What the catalogue shows for makers based in Peru.
Where Peruvian makers source cacao
Median across the 52 scored bars from makers based in Peru. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste. How Chof Score works.
Peruvian chocolate bars
Some of the best-scoring bars from makers based in Peru. Tap any bar for its full breakdown.
Bars with awards
14 bars from makers based in Peru have award results on Chof. Showing the 12 with the newest results. How Chof lists awards
Chocolate makers by city in Peru
Browse city pages where Chof has enough confirmed maker locations to show a useful local view.
Based in Peru
Frequently asked about chocolate makers in Peru
What is Peruvian chocolate known for?
Tree-to-bar making and very high quality. Most Peruvian makers on Chof grow and press their own home-grown cacao, and their bars are among the highest-scoring of any country, helped by Peru's exceptional cacao diversity.
What is a tree-to-bar maker?
A tree-to-bar maker grows the cacao and makes the chocolate, controlling the whole chain from the tree to the finished bar. It is most common in cacao-growing countries like Peru, and it gives unusually complete traceability.
What are the best Peruvian chocolate brands?
Chof lists 10 Peruvian chocolate makers and brands. Ranked by the best Chof Score among each maker's published bars, the top three in Peru are Conveca for its Chocolate con Leche, Maraná for its San Martín 80% and Pumatiy for its Cacao Chuncho 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 Peru are listed on Chof?
Chof currently lists 10 chocolate makers based in Peru.
Are there any bean-to-bar chocolate makers in Peru?
Yes. Every maker listed in Peru on Chof works bean-to-bar. 8 of them are tree-to-bar, growing the cacao as well.
What is the median Chof Score for Peruvian chocolate?
Across the 52 scored Peruvian bars on Chof, the median Chof Score is 89 out of 100, and the most common maker type is tree-to-bar. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste.
Where can I find Peru cacao on Chof?
Bean origin (where the cacao is grown) and maker country (where the chocolate is made) are different things. To browse chocolate made with cacao from Peru, open the Peru cacao origin page on Chof.
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Scan a Peru bar and track what you taste
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